FREDERIKSTED — A driver died after his car crashed into a tree on Emancipation Drive in Mars Hill early today, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.
Police officers and firefighters converged on the scene near Canebrake Apartments just after 1:10 a.m.
Juan Nales Jr., 36, of Campo Rico, was positively identified by next of kin as the deceased, according to the VIPD.
Nales was in a 2007 Acura TSX traveling north on Emancipation Drive when he lost control of the vehicle and it went off onto the eastern shoulder of the road and struck a tree, police said.
EMTs at the scene did not detect vital signs on Nales and pronounced him dead at 1:27 a.m., according to police.
A concerned citizen who noticed the one-car crash in Mars Hill called 911 stated that there was a man trapped inside the vehicle, and as a result, the dispatcher notified the VIPD, St. Croix Rescue, Fire Service, and EMS.
“The preliminary investigation disclosed that a blue 2007 Acura TSX was traveling from north to south on Emancipation Drive and while approaching the Canebrake Apartments the driver lost control of his vehicle and veered off the roadway onto the eastern shoulder and collided into a tree and the fence of Canebrake Apartments on the south-eastern shoulder of the roadway,” VIPD Communications Director Glen Dratte said.
The driver, Nales, died due to the injuries he sustained as a result of the crash, according to Dratte.
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