A Pe­nal me­chan­ic is now dead af­ter his mo­tor­cy­cle col­lid­ed with a car on Mon­day night.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, medics at the Siparia Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty made sev­er­al at­tempts to re­sus­ci­tate Brent Alexan­der af­ter the ac­ci­dent.

How­ev­er, the 30-year-old, from Grant Trace, Morne Di­a­blo, died al­most 90 min­utes af­ter the ac­ci­dent.

A po­lice re­port stat­ed that around 6.30 pm, a 70-year-old re­tiree was dri­ving his Nis­san Cube East along Grant Trace. As the re­tiree reached LP#4, he saw Alexan­der on his mo­tor­cy­cle, head­ing in the op­po­site di­rec­tion. As Alexan­der re­port­ed­ly tried to go around a bend, the mo­tor­cy­cle skid­ded on the road­way, caus­ing him to lose con­trol.

The re­tiree told a team of in­ves­ti­ga­tors, led by In­sp Ali and Sgt Ganesh, that when he saw Alexan­der skid­ding across the road he pulled to the left and stopped his car. How­ev­er, the mo­tor­cy­cle struck his car and the im­pact threw Alexan­der in a grassy area off the road. The re­tiree was not in­jured.

Para­medics and Pe­nal po­lice re­spond­ed to calls from res­i­dents.

Alexan­der was de­clared dead close to 8 on Mon­day while re­ceiv­ing emer­gency care.

A wreck­er moved both ve­hi­cles to the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion for pro­cess­ing as an in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues.