A MAN was killed in a vehicular accident while driving along the southbound lane of the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway in Gasparillo on Sunday morning.

Around 3.45 a.m., police said they responded to a report of a fatal accident and observed a vehicle, a white Hyundai H100 truck, overturned off the shoulder of the highway, in the bushes.

A man was found pinned in the vehicle and appeared motionless. A party of fire officers from Mon Repos responded to aid the police using the jaws of life to remove the man from the vehicle. The victim, Eoin Kazim Peters, 24, was identified by his driver’s licence. He was pronounced dead by the District Medical Officer at the scene.