John McCarthy
CHRISTIANSTED — Police are investigating a one-car crash on Thursday afternoon in Estate Diamond that days later claimed the life of the driver at the St. Croix hospital.
A Traffic Investigation Bureau police detective was dispatched to a one vehicle automobile collision that occurred on the southern shoulder of Queen Mary Highway (Route 70) in the vicinity of Oriental Bank about 2:29 p.m., the Virgin Islands Police Department said.
Upon arrival at the accident scene, members of EMS Fire were removing the driver from the vehicle because he was too weak to exit the vehicle on his own, according to the VIPD.
The driver was taken to the Juan F. Luis Hospital Emergency Room for medical treatment.
A preliminary investigation revealed that the driver was operating his vehicle heading eastbound on Queen Mary Highway and when he went around the curb in the area just before Oriental Bank he veered to the right, collided with a tree, and damaged several feet of fencing on the southern shoulder of the roadway, police said.
“The preliminary evidence indicates that the driver was not restraint causing his head to hit the front windshield of his vehicle,” VIPD spokeswoman Sakeeda Freeman said. “There was no other occupant in the vehicle.”
On Saturday, the Traffic Investigation Bureau became aware that the driver, Ferdinand Treasure, 85, had died, according to Freeman.
A family member confirmed Treasure’s death at the Juan F. Luis Hospital in Estate Diamond, according to police.
Follow up investigation to ascertain other pertinent facts in this case are pending, police said.
This case remains open and under investigation by the Virgin Island Police Department Traffic
Investigation Bureau, St. Croix District.
