Two co-workers are dead after their car left Queen Elizabeth Way and rammed a utility pole at Bronte Road in Oakville early Monday.

The two men were heading to work in Mississauga when the crash happened. Both men were wearing seatbelts and their airbags activated, but they didn't survive.

"It's a solid object you're hitting at 100 kilometres per hour. What can you say?" said OPP Sgt. Dave Woodford at the scene. "It's tragic."

The Honda Civic wrapped around the pole and split in two, the engine cast aside by the force of the impact.

Emergency services arrived to find two men trapped in front seats of the vehicle.
Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

Woodford said responders had to cut the roof off the vehicle to get the bodies out of the wreckage.

Investigators gathered a cellphone from the crash scene, but it isn't known yet if the driver had been distracted at the time of the crash.

The victims are aged 30 and 31. They lived in Burlington.

CTV Toronto identified one victim as Scot Ineson.

With a report from CTV Toronto's Austin Delaney