A MAN died in hospital in Freeport on Friday just days after his car crashed into a utility pole in Grand Bahama.

Police said the man, identified as Baretta S Bootle of Eight Mile Rock, hit a concrete utility pole in the centre median of East Sunrise Highway near Sergeant Major Road shortly after 10pm on Tuesday.

Bootle, 38, had to be taken from his silver coloured Nissan Sentra by the Jaws of Life. EMS personnel took him to the Rand Memorial Hospital where he was listed in critical condition.

He died in hospital shortly before 8pm on Friday.

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