A driver was dead after striking multiple vehicles Saturday afternoon in Humboldt Park on the West Side.

About 4:15 p.m., the driver was traveling “at a high rate of speed” in the 700 block of North Kedzie Avenue when he struck a minivan before driving onto oncoming traffic and striking a second vehicle head on, Chicago police said.

The driver of the vehicle that struck the others was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. His name and age weren’t immediately available.

One passenger in the striking vehicle and the driver and passenger of the second vehicle struck were treated at a hospital and released, police said. The driver of the minivan wasn’t injured.

Area detectives were investigating.