A Ch­agua­nas man has be­come Trinidad and To­ba­go’s lat­est road fa­tal­i­ty.

Bee­sham Philip, 63, of Ma­haraj Street, Mon­trose, Ch­agua­nas, was trav­el­ling north along the Uri­ah But­ler High­way at about 10.15 pm on Thurs­day, when he lost con­trol of the Maz­da RX-8 he was dri­ving, reg­is­tra­tion num­ber PCZ 7033. The ve­hi­cle crashed in­to a con­crete bar­ri­er on the west­ern side of the dual car­riage­way near the Di­vali Na­gar walkover.

Po­lice said Philip was the sole oc­cu­pant of the ve­hi­cle, which caught fire fol­low­ing the col­li­sion. He suf­fered se­vere burns to his up­per body and was pro­nounced dead at the scene by the dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer.