A 51-year-old man from St James died in a car crash along the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way in El So­cor­ro on Sun­day night.

Po­lice said around 11.25 pm, of­fi­cers from the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed to a re­port of an ac­ci­dent and found a gold Nis­san Almera in a drain just south of the high­way. A short dis­tance away, they dis­cov­ered the body of Adri­an Lessey with se­vere in­juries to his mid­sec­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve Lessey lost con­trol of the ve­hi­cle and crashed in­to con­crete traf­fic bar­ri­cades, which showed fresh scratch­es and im­pact marks.