A WITNEY man has died after his car hit a tree near Minster Lovell.

The accident happened shortly before 9pm yesterday as the car, a silver Vauxhall Astra, was travelling from Minster Lovell on the B4047 Burford Road towards Brize Norton.

Firefighters cut the 33-year-old driver out of his car using hydraulic cutting equipment but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

No one else was in the car at the time of the accident and no other vehicles were involved.