Four peo­ple, in­clud­ing a child, died on Sat­ur­day night af­ter the dri­ver of a ve­hi­cle lost con­trol and crashed off the south­bound lane of the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way near the Clax­ton Bay over­pass.

Among the four dead were Steve El­der, 40, of Cunu­pia and Kizzy Cato, 38, of Er­i­ca Street, Laven­tille.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 10 pm on Sat­ur­day, an in­for­mant re­port­ed that a white Hyundai Cre­ta, reg­is­tra­tion PDY 8181, was trav­el­ling at high speed when it veered off the road, over­turned, and land­ed in a wood­ed area be­tween the ramp and the main car­riage­way of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way, near the Clax­ton Bay Over­pass.

When po­lice and emer­gency re­spon­ders ar­rived, they found four oc­cu­pants un­re­spon­sive in­side the ve­hi­cle—three adults and a child.

One adult male, who was sit­ting in the front pas­sen­ger seat, was rushed to the hos­pi­tal in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Coldero vis­it­ed the scene and or­dered the bod­ies re­moved to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.

A third adult fe­male and the fe­male child have not yet been iden­ti­fied. The in­jured man has since been trans­ferred to the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal for a CT scan.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing. Guardian Me­dia will pro­vide up­dates as more in­for­ma­tion be­comes avail­able.