Ontario's Special Investigations Unit is examining the actions of Toronto police following a car chase that left one driver dead and sent another to hospital.

Police were conducting traffic checks in the city's east end shortly after midnight when they identified a suspected stolen car after running the licence plates through their system.

The SIU says police tried to pull the 17-year-old driver over on Victoria Park Avenue, near Eglinton Avenue, but he refused to stop. The suspect continued south along Victoria Park, but lost control, slamming sideways into a northbound vehicle, just north of St. Clair Avenue.

Vehicle parts were strewn across the street, and the suspected stolen car ended up on the front lawn of a house.

The teenager, Shilton Lutchman, was pronounced dead at the scene, said SIU spokesperson Rose Bliss. The driver of the second vehicle, a 33-year-old man, was taken to hospital with a broken wrist.

Winston Lutchman told CTV News the Acura was not stolen, but he didn't know where his son got the licence plates for the car.

"The car was not stolen. I have a bill from the dealership, it was his car. I don't know where he got the plates, a friend put the plates on and he collected the car to bring it home. I don't know where the plates came from," Lutchman said Tuesday.

Shilton's mother, Debra Davson, described her son as a good child.

"He was a good kid, a sweetheart, the last thing he said to him last night was that he loved me and he gave me a kiss," Davson told CTV News.

One local resident said the crash site was a scene of mayhem.

"There was this tremendous crash and my wife comes running out. It looked like the end of the world out here," the man told CTV News on Tuesday.

Police closed Victoria Park, between St. Clair and Eglinton, for investigation. The area was reopened by mid-morning.

Anyone who has witnessed the accident is asked to contact the SIU at 416-622-1988 or 1-800-787-8529.

The SIU, a civilian agency, investigates incidents involving police and civilians that have resulted in serious injury, sexual assault or death.

With a report from CTV's Austin Delaney