A 16-year-old is dead and two other teens injured after a single-vehicle crash in Scarborough on Friday.

Toronto police say they responded to the intersection of Brimley Road and McNicoll Avenue around 1:25 a.m.

The vehicle mounted a curb and hit the cement base of a pole on the west side of the intersection. The pole then fell down onto the sedan.

Firefighters required about an hour to free all three teens from the Mercedes-Benz sedan.

Paramedics transported them to the trauma centre at Sunnybrook Hospital, where the driver was pronounced dead.

A 16 y/o boy is dead after this car smashed into a light standard on Brimley near McNicoll. He was driving. A 14 y/o boy in the front is in life threatening condition. A 16 y/o boy in the back is expected to survive. Police say speed was clearly involved. <a href="https://t.co/0g7iVqHQ52">pic.twitter.com/0g7iVqHQ52</a> —@LindaWardCBC

The 14-year-old sitting in the front passenger seat has life-threatening injuries, while the 16-year-old passenger in the back seat has serious but non-life threatening injuries, according to police.

A man at the scene of the crash told CBC Toronto that the driver was his nephew. He identified the teen as Shahzaib Tariq, and said that Tariq lived with his parents and four siblings in Whitby.

"All of our family is broken after hearing this news," said Tallat Safdar, adding it appears Tariq took his parent's vehicle around midnight.

He said that doing so seemed very out of character for his nephew.

"He was very good, very nice."

Tariq's first cousin, Mohammed Muzamil, was also at the scene. He said that Tariq definitely did not have a G2 licence, and may not have had a G1.

Toronto police's collision reconstruction team is investigating the circumstances of the crash. Sgt. Alex Crews said there are indications that speed was a factor.

Heavy rain also fell overnight in the city.

"I think it's every parent's worst nightmare. You have these teens and they're full of life and they get into a car and something tragic like this happens," said Crews.

"Speed limits are there for a reason."

Brimley Road is closed for the investigation.