Police said the accident fatality was a 23-year-old Newbury man, Mark Laustsen, while his longtime friend, Thomas Cronin, 22, was seriously injured in the 5 am crash.
Laustsen reportedly drove off the left shoulder of the southbound lane of I-89 into the median embankment, about a mile south of Exit 11 in New London.
The crash sent the vehicle, a 2000 Chevrolet Tracker, to roll over several times before coming to a stop on its tires, while ejecting Laustsen from the vehicle.
Laustsen suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene, police said.
His passenger, Cronin, sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries and was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Police are still trying to determine the cause of the crash.
According to Laustsen's mother, Janet Laustsen, he was driving back from a friend's house and could have been tired after working a full day as a machinist at Continental Machine in Andover, Mass.
Laustsen and Cronin had been friends since high school, she said.
News Sources: The Concord Monitor, The Union Leader.
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