A 21-year-old man is dead and two women remain in hospital with serious injuries following a crash on Beaver Bank Road outside of Halifax.

The man who died was a passenger in the vehicle.

"We arrived at the scene and found that there was one person pronounced dead, a 21-year old man from Beaver Bank," said Staff Sgt. Dave Thibeau with the Halifax RCMP.

"We believe alcohol was a factor in the crash. The vehicle went off the roadway and there were two people ejected from the vehicle and the vehicle did flip over a few times."

Thibeau says the three other young people were rushed to hospital and the driver has since been released. Police have not released their exact ages.

The single-vehicle crash happened at around 1:30 Sunday morning near 2028 Beaver Bank Rd.

Thibeau says the Honda Civic was travelling toward Lower Sackville when it went off the road and continued travelling for about 200 metres before coming to a stop in a ditch after flipping and passing over a driveway.

RCMP investigators spent several hours at the scene of the crash Sunday morning. There was debris scattered in the area and pools of blood on the road.

A traffic reconstructionist was at the scene of the crash trying to determine exactly what happened.

Thibeau says they will be looking at whether speed was also a factor.

Beaver Bank Road was closed to traffic near the 2000-block for several hours while RCMP investigated.

RCMP re-opened the road around 11 a.m.