Two men are dead and a third is facing dangerous driving charges after a car struck a parked van in Lower Sackville, N.S.

The RCMP responded to the collision on Hillside Avenue shortly after midnight. Police say a 2009 Honda Civic with four male occupants struck a parked Mercedes-Benz cube van.

Area resident Paulette Shore said she heard a loud noise, but didn’t realize someone had crashed their vehicle.

“I heard a bang at 12 o’clock last night and I didn’t know what it was, so … I went back to bed and went to sleep, and then around 2, the lights were flashing in my living room,” said Shore.

“So I got up and went out and, my gosh, the street was full of emergency vehicles, RCMP, fire trucks, it was everything.”

A 42-year-old man from Lower Sackville and a 48-year-old man from Prince Edward Island were pronounced dead at the scene. Their identities have not been released.

A 25-year-old man from Bedford was taken to the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.

The 26-year-old driver wasn’t injured. Police say the Lower Sackville man is facing two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm.

The road was closed for several hours while an RCMP collision analyst attended the scene.

“They're conducting a mechanical inspection on the vehicle to determine if anything mechanically wrong with the vehicle, which may have contributed to the collision," says Cpl. Dal Hutchinson of Halifax District RCMP.

The man facing charges is expected to appear in court Wednesday morning.

With files from CTV Atlantic’s Ron Shaw.