A man who was in­jured in a car ac­ci­dent near Bhag­wans­ingh’s in Ch­agua­nas ear­li­er this month has died.

The de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as Aray­on Gabriel, of San Fer­nan­do, who suc­cumbed to his in­juries while still hos­pi­talised at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, at 4 am yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors, Gabriel sus­tained mul­ti­ple in­juries, in­clud­ing bro­ken ribs and punc­tured lungs, in the crash along the Uri­ah But­ler High­way on Feb­ru­ary 9.

Re­ports in­di­cate that he had rent­ed the ve­hi­cle but chose not to dri­ve, as he had been drink­ing. In­stead, he al­lowed a friend, who was sober, to take the wheel.

The ve­hi­cle, a sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da, veered off the high­way, crashed in­to the fence lin­ing Bhag­wans­ingh’s, and plunged in­to a ditch.

Two oth­er pas­sen­gers sus­tained in­juries—one suf­fered a bro­ken arm, while the oth­er sus­tained a bro­ken col­lar­bone.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.

—RHON­DOR DOWLAT