Toronto: Four Indo-Canadians have been identified as victims of a fatal crash that occurred shortly after midnight Thursday in Toronto.

Although their names have not been released, members of the Indo-Canadian community identified the victims as Digvijay Patel, Jay Sisodia and their siblings, Keta and Nil Gohil.

According to a statement released Friday by Toronto police, officers responded to a call of a traffic accident shortly after midnight on Thursday. The accident happened near Lakeshore Boulevard in the city.

The victims were traveling in a Tesla EV. According to the press release, the Tesla lost control and struck the guardrail then a concrete pillar and subsequently “was engulfed in flames”.

The fire claimed the lives of four people while a fifth passenger, an unidentified woman, was rescued by passers-by and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Four people “were declared dead on site,” the press release said. The victims were all aged between their twenties and thirties.

Police are asking local residents and drivers who may have dash cam footage or witnessed the event to contact investigators.

Among those nearby was a Canada Post employee who was heading toward the city of Mississauga when he witnessed the flames. Rick Harper told CTV News Toronto that he saw “five to six feet of flames above the front hood of the car.”

Harper played a role in saving the passenger who survived. Although other people near the accident site rushed to help, they were unable to break the vehicle’s windows.

He took a bar from the truck he was driving and, with the help of another person, managed to open a window. “And then (it was) good to see the young woman come out head first out of the window,” he told the media.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.