UPDATE: Two young women dead after head-on crash on Sea to Sky Highway

Two young women are dead and two others are injured after a crash on the Sea to Sky Highway north of Lions Bay Saturday morning, RCMP confirm.

They have now been identified as two 19-year-old UBC students.

The crash happened at around 7:35 a.m. near Loggers Creek, about five kilometres north of Lions Bay.

Mounties say four young women between the ages of 19 and 20 were travelling to Whistler in a Jeep Cherokee when the driver lost control turning a corner.

The Jeep, which has Washington State licence plates, hit a Chevy pick-up truck head on, killing two of the four women, according to police.

The other two women were taken to hospital and one is in serious condition.

Two of the women in the vehicle are Canadian and two are American, according to police.

Investigators are still trying to determine their identities.

The man driving the pick-up truck was uninjured.

Inspector Tim Shields with Lower Mainland RCMP calls the accident “a tragedy beyond words.”

Shields says they do not yet know what caused the collision, but road conditions were icy at the time.

The crash happened on a stretch of the recently upgraded highway that has just one lane in each direction without a concrete median.

“We have collision reconstructionists at the scene trying to piece together everything that happened in the second leading up to the impact to determine the cause of the crash.”

The highway is now open north of Lions Bay, but drivers should expect delays.