One person is dead after a police stop Thursday ended in a chase and a fiery crash, officials say.
At 8:30 p.m., an Aiken County sheriff’s deputy pulled over a vehicle on Sheraton Drive near Atomic Road in the Beech Island community. But when the deputy approached the car and asked for the driver’s information, the car sped away from the traffic stop, an incident report says.
The patrol car followed and less than a mile away found the car wrecked and in flames near the intersection of Sheraton and Old Jackson Highway, near the entrance to Aiken County’s Kimberly-Clark manufacturing plant…