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A 28-year-old man from England allegedly fleeing from police was charged with causing a crash that killed the driver of another vehicle Sunday evening in Gloucester County, prosecutors said. Steve Hall, of Waltham Cross, a town north of London, was charged with second-degree death by automobile, and two counts of fourth-degree assault by automobile, Gloucester County Prosecutor Andrew B. Johns said Monday. The driver killed in the crash was not identified. Shortly after 5:30 p.m. Sunday, West Deptford Township police responded to a report of two intoxicated men at a gas station and convenience store on the 1100 block of Hessian Avenue, Johns said. The officers arrived and saw a vehicle matching the description of a vehicle associated with the men, Johns said. The vehicle then left the gas station onto Hessian Avenue. One officer in a marked unit followed the vehicle with emergency lights activated, Johns said. The vehicle, which a witness said was moving at a high rate of speed, veered into the opposite lane of travel and struck another vehicle, Johns said. The driver of the second vehicle was killed. A passenger in the back seat who sustained a leg fracture described being T-boned by Hall’s vehicle, Johns said. A passenger in Hall’s vehicle sustained a dislocated hip, and Hall also was injured in the crash, Johns said.
