A woman has passed away after a motor vehicle accident at Navola along the Queens Road yesterday afternoon.

The woman was a passenger in a car driven by a man heading towards Suva when he allegedly lost control of the vehicle causing it to veer off the road and landed in a creek.

The driver is admitted in the Lautoka Hospital as well as a man and a woman who were passengers in the car.

The road death toll currently stands at 58 compared to 52 for the same period last year.