The breach of a red traf­fic light is be­lieved to be the rea­son be­hind a head-on col­li­sion which claimed the life of one of the dri­vers last Thurs­day, po­lice say.

Ker­ri Clarke, 39, labour­er, of Em­ba­cadere, San Fer­nan­do, died at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Po­lice said around 1.50 am last Thurs­day, Babriel Lam­bert, 19, of Union Hall, was dri­ving south along the San Fer­nan­do By-Pass in a sil­ver grey Toy­ota wag­on. But, when he got to the traf­fic lights by the Blitz Vil­lage in­ter­sec­tion, Clarke ex­it­ed from Blitz Vil­lage in a black Kia Rio, re­port­ed­ly breach­ing the red light.

The wag­on and Kia col­lid­ed.

Lam­bert and his front seat pas­sen­ger, a 14-year-old boy, were in­jured. Mean­while, Clarke’s front seat pas­sen­ger, a 34-year-old woman from Vista­bel­la, suf­fered mi­nor in­juries.

With the as­sis­tance of of­fi­cers from the Mon Re­pos Fire Sta­tion, the in­jured vic­tims were re­moved from the ve­hi­cles and tak­en to the hos­pi­tal.

PC Mo­hess and PC Roberts, of the Mon Re­pos Po­lice Sta­tion, vis­it­ed the scene. Cpl Lee is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.