A 38-year-old man is dead and three others have minor injuries after a vehicle slammed into a pole in Rosedale early Monday morning.

It happened near Mount Pleasant Road and Roxborough Drive at around 2:30 a.m.

Police say that the 38-year-old man was a passenger in the car.

It is not immediately clear what caused the vehicle to leave the roadway in the first place.

The northbound lanes of Mount Pleasant Road are closed between Whitehall Road and South Drive as police complete a full reconstruction of the accident. The southbound lanes were initially closed but reopened at around 9:30 a.m.