AMESBURY, MASS. (WHDH) - Police are investigating after a fatal crash in Amesbury early Monday morning.
Just after 12 a.m., a Merrimac police officer on patrol on Rt. 1110 noticed a license plate light was out on a 2003 Honda Civic.
The officer turned on his lights and the driver sped away. The officer then lost sight of the car.
Amesbury Police were notified, as the car was headed into that town.
According to police, two minutes later a Merrimac officer saw skid marks in the roadway and soon found the car had run off the road and crashed into a utility pole.
The driver, a man from Lawrence, was killed.
A front seat passenger, also a man from Lawrence, was partially ejected from the car and taken to a local hospital with serious injuries.
Police determined the license plates on the car were stolen.
An investigation is ongoing.
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