Four peo­ple, in­clud­ing a child, died on Sat­ur­day night af­ter the dri­ver of a ve­hi­cle lost con­trol and crashed off the south­bound lane of the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way near the Clax­ton Bay over­pass.

Among the four dead were Steve El­der, 40, of Cunu­pia and Kizzy Cato, 38, of Er­i­ca Street, Laven­tille.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 10 pm on Sat­ur­day, an in­for­mant re­port­ed that a white Hyundai Cre­ta, reg­is­tra­tion PDY 8181, was trav­el­ling at high speed when it veered off the road, over­turned, and land­ed in a wood­ed area be­tween the ramp and the main car­riage­way of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way, near the Clax­ton Bay Over­pass.