An ac­ci­dent in St Joseph ear­ly on Sun­day morn­ing end­ed with the death of an uniden­ti­fied man and an­oth­er in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal, po­lice said.

Sources con­firmed that a gold Nis­san Almera was speed­ing on the west­bound lane of the East­ern Main Road at around 2 am when it drove over a pot hole near a tyre shop, caus­ing dri­ver to lose con­trol, as it swerved off the road and crashed in­to a riv­er off the St Joseph Bridge.

Of­fi­cers of the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion were called in and found the body of an uniden­ti­fied man in bush­es about 20 feet down an em­bank­ment from the road.