A man is dead after his car slammed into a pole on Highway 401, near Kennedy Avenue, in the early morning hours Saturday.

Ontario Provincial Police said the collision occurred at 3:20 a.m. when a Toyota Echo veered from the eastbound collector lanes over a grassy median.

The vehicle collided with a pole before coming to a stop against a steel guardrail, police said.

The 22-year-old driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

He was the only person in the car.

Police have not released the man’s name or a cause of the collision.