One man is dead and another was sent to hospital after an early morning crash in Vancouver's Stanley Park, police say.

The Vancouver park board has approved the consumption ... Spanish Banks, and Stanley Park Second Beach be open to alcohol use between the first week of June and the last week of September.

Second Beach is another Vancouver beach where consuming alcohol in the summer is being made permanently legal. (Justine Boulin/CBC) The city already allows the drinking of alcohol in 31 public parks ...