A 19-year-old Aranguez man is this coun­try's lat­est road fa­tal­i­ty af­ter he died while dri­ving on the Beetham High­way on Tues­day night.

Po­lice said Kav­ish Per­sad was dri­ving a white Hyundai Ion­ic at 10 pm when he tried to over­take a car but crashed in­to it. His car then struck the Beetham wa­ter main, went air­borne and land­ed in the near­by Laven­tille Riv­er.

On­look­ers gath­ered as res­i­dents rushed to help, pulling Per­sad from the sub­merged car, but he was un­re­spon­sive. Emer­gency per­son­nel re­mained on the scene con­duct­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.