A 23-year-old man is dead after crashing his vehicle on the northbound Don Valley Parkway early Monday morning.

The vehicle crashed into a ditch at approximately 4 a.m., just south of Millwood Road, Toronto paramedics told CTV Toronto. The victim was not breathing when he was extricated from his vehicle.

Three hours after the crash, police announced that the victim had been pronounced dead .

The northbound DVP was closed from the Bayview-Bloor ramps to Don Mills Road as a result. Lanes reopened shortly before 8:30 a.m.