A fam­i­ly is mourn­ing as the new year ap­proach­es fol­low­ing a fa­tal road traf­fic ac­ci­dent along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way in Gas­par­il­lo ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said Eoin Kaz­im Pe­ters, 21, of Ar­joon­s­ingh Dri­ve, Dum­fries Road, La Ro­main, died af­ter he be­came pinned un­der a Kia H100 pick­up.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said that around 3 am, of­fi­cers re­ceived a re­port of a crash along the south­bound lane of the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way near the Gas­par­il­lo Over­pass.