One dead after car crashes into tree near 76th and Stark

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Milwaukee Police responded to a single car crash near 76th and Stark just after midnight early Thursday morning.

The male driver died in the crash and a second male passenger suffered non-life threatening injuries. 

A neighbor says a group of neighbors were able to cut out the male passenger from the vehicle.

Milwaukee police say he has non-life-threatening injuries.

She says the neighbors were not able to get the driver out of the vehicle and he died of his injuries.

One neighbor says she heard the crash happened and responded quickly.

"There was a big bang about 12:15. There was a big bang that shook the houses and I ran to the window to look out to see where it was because I knew it was some kind of accident. So, when I got here to the front door and saw that car up against that tree I came outside,' a neighbor recalls. 

Milwaukee Police are investigating the circumstances that led up to the crash.