A man is dead and two oth­ers are hos­pi­talised fol­low­ing a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent near the Ca­roni Fly­over dur­ing the ear­ly hours yes­ter­day.

The ac­ci­dent, which oc­curred around 6 am along the north­bound lane of the Uri­ah But­ler High­way, re­port­ed­ly in­volved four peo­ple who were re­turn­ing home from a night out.

It is yet to be de­ter­mined what caused the dri­ver to veer off the road be­fore col­lid­ing with a lamp post, the im­pact of which re­port­ed­ly caused the black Hyundai Elantra to split in two.