A driver was killed and his passenger is clinging to life after a car crash in the Bronx early Sunday morning, police said.

The 22-year-old man was driving a 2009 Subaru northbound on the Hutchinson River Parkway near the New England Thruway at about 2:30 a.m. when he sideswiped a BMW and crashed into a tree, police said.

The driver and his passenger, a woman in her 20s, were rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, authorities said.

He was pronounced dead at the hospital and she was listed in critical condition, cops said.

The BMW driver, a 33-year-old woman, remained at the scene of the crash, police said.

The identity of the driver who was killed is being withheld pending family notification.