Corentyne driver dies after car slams into culvert, pole

Kevin Alert

A Corentyne hire car driver died on Sunday evening after he  lost control of his vehicle and it slammed into a culvert and then into a utility pole before toppling into some nearby bushes.

Dead is Kevin Alert, 24, of Eversham Village, Corentyne, who was driving motor car, PAC, 1403 at the time of the accident. Alert’s cousin, Nickolas Johnson, 21, of Lot 19 Number 51 Village, Corentyne, who was also in the vehicle, is hospitalized in a serious but stable condition at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

According to information gathered, the men were heading towards Skeldon when the accident happened just around 11.50 pm.