A stolen vehicle caught fire north of Spokane, on Hazard Road, while the driver was attempting to evade a Spokane County sheriff’s deputy Friday morning.
According to a news release, a witness reported seeing two men arrive in the 9500 block of North Normandie Street in a white Dodge truck. The witness said one man exited the truck and entered a black Honda with Oregon license plates belonging to the witness’s brother. Both men drove west toward Wall Street.
As a deputy drove to the scene of the reported theft, he spotted vehicles matching the witness’s description: a Honda followed by a Dodge. After the deputy activated his sirens, the driver of the Honda accelerated and the driver of the truck maintained his speed and did not yield. The deputy said that after passing the truck, he saw the Honda, still driving fast, hit a large dip in the road and begin to smoke.