A 50-year-old man has died after being involved in a road traffic collision in the Larnaca district, the police announced on Sunday..

The man, named as Romanian national Ioulian Filip, was driving between the villages of Choirokitia and Zygi when his vehicle overturned and came to a stop in a field adjacent to the road.

He was found by police unconscious outside his vehicle, and he was taken to the Larnaca general hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The police said that Filip had left his home to go to work at around 11.15pm on Saturday, and lost control of his vehicle under circumstances which are still under investigation, hitting an embankment and overturning.

The police’s investigation into the matter is ongoing.