One man is dead and another has minor injuries after a car and a dump truck collided near Davis Drive and Kennedy Road just east of Newmarket this afternoon.

York Regional Police had called in an air ambulance, but the male driver of the car died at a local hospital.

Police were called to the scene at 3:08 p.m. and have not yet released the cause of the crash.

The two drivers were the lone occupants of each vehicle. Investigators are still interviewing other witnesses at the scene.