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The chase began around 8:45 p.m. when a Massachusetts State Trooper spotted a 2011 Nissan Altima and attempted to pull it over on Route 202 South in Belchertown. The driver stepped on the gas, police said. He was going too fast to manage a curve in the road and skidded off the highway.
The car smashed into a mulch bed, which sent the Nissan flying. It bounced off a rock wall and a light post before crashing into a Jeep Wrangler parked in a home's driveway at 79 N. Main St. and damaged a car parked next to the Jeep, authorities said.
The Nissan's engine was ejected from the car and smashed through the wall of a neighboring home at 73 N. Main St., police said. The flying debris punched holes in the first and second floors of the house.
The driver was also ejected, and he died at the scene, authorities said.
Police will not release his name until they can reach his next of kin, authorities said.
No one in either home was injured. The crash is under investigation.
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