Fleeing Driver Dies In PG County Crash: Police

SEAT PLEASANT, MD -- A man has died after fleeing a police officer who tried to stop him for speeding in Seat Pleasant, police say.

The police officer was conducting stationary radar on East Capitol Street in the area of Maryland Park Drive at around 8:05 a.m. on June 7 when he clocked a vehicle at 58 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone, according to a report from the Prince George's County Police Department. Police say the driver is 24-year-old Deshawn Williams of Southeast D.C.

"The officer left his post in an effort to conduct a traffic stop on Williams," the report states. "Williams turned right off of East Capitol Street where he immediately encountered a vehicle that was stopped at a stop sign at Old Central Avenue. Williams is seen traveling into the oncoming lane of traffic around the stopped vehicle. As he headed westbound on Old Central Avenue, he crossed the double yellow line into the oncoming single lane of traffic in order to pass at least 4 other vehicles."

Williams re-entered the westbound lanes near Maryland Park Drive where he lost control and slammed into the gate of a closed business and a fire hydrant, ejecting him from the vehicle, the report states.

He was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after the crash.