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| Driver dies in police pursuit crash in Lingfield | Driver dies in police pursuit crash in Lingfield |
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| The driver of a car pursued by police after failing to stop was killed when he collided with three other vehicles. | |
| The collision happened just after 19:45 GMT on Thursday in Felcourt Road in Lingfield, Surrey. | |
| The man, who was driving a Lexus, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of one of the other vehicles was seriously injured. | The man, who was driving a Lexus, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of one of the other vehicles was seriously injured. |
| Surrey Police said the man, who was the sole occupant of the Lexus, had failed to stop when requested by officers. | Surrey Police said the man, who was the sole occupant of the Lexus, had failed to stop when requested by officers. |
| The Independent Police Complaints Commission was called to the scene but said it was referring the investigation back to Surrey Police after listening to a recording of the pursuit. | The Independent Police Complaints Commission was called to the scene but said it was referring the investigation back to Surrey Police after listening to a recording of the pursuit. |
| A police spokesman added: "The occupants of one of the other vehicles were taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, where the driver is being treated for serious but non-life threatening or life-changing injuries and the passenger is being treated for minor injuries. | A police spokesman added: "The occupants of one of the other vehicles were taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, where the driver is being treated for serious but non-life threatening or life-changing injuries and the passenger is being treated for minor injuries. |
| "The occupants of the other two vehicles suffered minor injuries but did not require hospital treatment." | "The occupants of the other two vehicles suffered minor injuries but did not require hospital treatment." |
| The road was closed overnight at the junctions with Blackberry Road and Furzefield Road but has since reopened. | |
| Roger Young said he saw a Lexus "roaring past at great speed". | |
| "Shortly after that there was a police car with blue lights flashing. It was about a hundred yards behind. | |
| "Then I heard a sort of thump and I thought, here we go again, the same area," he said. | |
| "There have been loads of accidents down there," he added. | |
| 'Loud bang' | |
| Residents have been campaigning for a speed camera to be installed on Felcourt Road which has a 40mph speed limit. | |
| Liz Lockwood, from Felcourt Against Speeding Traffic, said four people had been killed or seriously injured on the road in the past four years. | |
| "My friend phoned me last night to say there had been a really serious accident," she said. | |
| "They heard a loud bang and they had come out to see what had happened. They saw a car wrecked at the top. | |
| "As they came down from the road, they saw three other wrecked cars." |