EL SERENO (CBSLA.com) — A man in his 20s was killed Friday morning after crashing his vehicle into a telephone pole in El Sereno.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers were sent around 12:34 a.m. to the 2200 block of Eastern Avenue, near Druid Street, for report of a single vehicle collision into a pole.

Once on scene, officers extracted and transported a victim, described as a black male, to USC Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

His identity is being withheld pending family notification.

A preliminary investigation revealed the victim was traveling southbound on Eastern Avenue when his vehicle reportedly ran off the roadway and crashed into a telephone pole.

No other vehicles were involved in the crash.

The cause of the collision remains under investigation.