NEWPORT, Del. (WPVI) -- New Castle County Police are investigating a fatal car crash involving a stolen vehicle.
Authorities say police were called about 12:20 a.m. Wednesday to the Cleland Heights area regarding a stolen Cadillac sedan. An officer later spotted the car driving without any headlights and began to follow it.
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As the car sped up, the officer lost sight of it, but other officers observed it traveling at a high rate of speed without headlights on Maryland Avenue near South DuPont Road.
As officers began checking the area, they found the car had struck a tree in Newport.
Investigators say the speeding car hit a curb, struck a tree and traveled another 50 feet before striking another tree. The driver, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene.