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A La Brea retiree is dead following an accident just after midnight on March 16.

According to reports, John Duncan, 64, of Marshall Street, a retiree of the Ministry of Works and Transport, was driving along New Jersey Road, La Brea, when the white Nissan AD wagon he was driving began to swerve before crashing into a concrete box drain.

Duncan’s front-seat passenger told police on reaching the vicinity of Station Beach, he bawled out, “Oh Lord” and clutched his chest.