IPSWICH, Mass. (AP) – Charles E. Fowler, 22, of Lisbon Falls, who was fleeing police died Friday morning after crashing into the same telephone pole a Beverly teenager hit in another fatal crash last month.

Police responded just after 2:30 a.m. to reports of a red 1998 Ford Contour racing through a residential area, said Deputy Chief Peter Foote of the Ipswich police.

Foote said officers soon discovered the car was not properly registered, and tried to signal the driver to stop.

Instead, police said the man drove away at such high speeds that the officers lost sight of the car until they eventually found the vehicle wrapped around the telephone pole.

Emergency workers extracted the driver, Charles E. Fowler, 22, of Lisbon Falls, Maine, and took him to Beverly Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 4:30 a.m., Foote said.

A Beverly teenager hit the same telephone pole on Nov. 5 in a crash that killed her 17-year-old friend.

Michelle Sullivan, 19, pleaded innocent to motor vehicle homicide, driving under the influence of alcohol and operating negligently in the crash that killed Lisa Speraco of Ipswich.

Prosecutors have said Sullivan was drunk on malt liquor, talking on a cell phone and driving more than 30 miles per hour over the 35-mph speed limit at the time of the crash.

Police were still investigating the cause of Friday’s crash.

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