PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The driver of a vehicle is dead after a crash early Saturday morning.
It happened just before 1 a.m. on Academy Road near Red Lion Road in the Morrell Park area of Northeast Philadelphia.
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Police say the driver was in the northbound lanes of Academy Road when he lost control and slammed into a utility pole, snapping it in half.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. He has been identified as 19-year-old Kyle Prince Joselin.
The passenger, an 18-year-old-male, was taken to Jefferson-Torresdale Hospital in stable condition.
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Philadelphia Police Department's Crash Investigation Division is investigating how the driver lost control.