Man dead after I-20 police chase
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By Bryan Cox
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 at 3:44 p.m.

Read more: Local, State, I 20, Crash, Deputies, Pursuit

KERSHAW COUNTY -- Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating a high-speed police chase Monday evening that led to a crash killing the suspect and seriously injuring two passengers.

According to Kershaw County Deputy Coroner Joe Wilson, 25-year-old Phillip Miller of Douglasville, Georgia, died at the scene from massive head and neck trauma. Marsha Ward Knox and a 14-month-old child were transported to Palmetto Richland Hospital in Columbia.

The chase began on Interstate-20 in Lee County when a deputy spotted the vehicle driving nearly 100 miles-per-hour, said Major Daniel Simon with the Lee County Sheriff's Department. Officers pursued the suspect and the accident took place just after 8 p.m. in Kershaw County, near mile marker 102.

According to the highway patrol, Lee County and Kershaw County deputies, were pursuing the 2003 Volkswagon Passat when the car went off the off the road and hit some trees.

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