Driver Fleeing CHP Officers Dies in Crash
RIVERSIDE — A driver was killed Monday after leading police on a freeway chase that ended when she drove off an embankment and crashed her car in a field, the California Highway Patrol said.
Shortly before noon, CHP officers tried to stop a white car on westbound California 60, but the driver sped off, authorities said.
The chase reached speeds of 95 mph before ending on the southbound Interstate 15. The car made a sharp right turn, drove over an embankment, crashed through a fence and came to rest in a field in Mira Loma, CHP Officer Dennis Welch said.
The driver was not wearing a seat belt and died at the scene, Welch said.
Her name was not immediately released, and the motive for the chase is under investigation, authorities said.
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