Kukum Traffic officers are investigating a fatal accident at East Kola Ridge Road in Honiara today (26 December), which resulted to the death of a 45-years-old male.
It is alleged the accident occur while the man was driving a three tone pick-up truck along East Kola Ridge which ditched off the road and hit a post. As a result the driver and another injured passenger were transported to the National Referral Hospital (NRH) by Police Patrol. On arrival at the NRH, the driver was pronounced death by a doctor.
Police are investigating the case and have applied for Postmortem to be carried out to ascertain the cause of death.
Supervising Assistant Commissioner (AC) National Capital and Crime Prevention, Patricia Leta says, “I would like to convey my sincere condolences to the immediate families and relatives of the deceased.”