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One person has died and two others are in hospital in serious condition following an early Tuesday morning collision on the Burrard Street Bridge.

The collision resulted in a fire and left pieces of a wrecked Audi R8 strewn across the roadway around 1 a.m.

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According to a witness who was on scene, the Audi could be heard taking off loudly near Cornwall and Burrard, headed northbound on the bridge.

“He was flooring it and when he shifted into fourth or fifth gear, he lost control and hit the taxi and the side of the bridge and exploded in a massive fireball,” said the witness who asked not to be named. “I called 911 and by the time I ran up the bridge, there were several cabbies and the police had arrived.

“From what we could see the Audi was split in half.”

Vancouver police say the Audi was travelling north on the bridge when the driver lost control, crossed the centre line and collided head-on with a southbound taxi.