Authorities say a 24-year-old Michigan man has died after crashing a police vehicle he managed to steal while being arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

Phillip Everett was arrested around 4am Sunday after Michigan State Police troopers responded to reports of a man driving a golf cart without headlights along a road.

Once inside a patrol car, Everett was able to get into the driver's seat.

The Michigan State Police cruiser was destroyed Sunday in the early morning crash

Philip Everett was just 24-years-old when he crashed the police cruiser and died

Police say he was able to drive off with the police car at a high rate of speed as troopers tried to secure the golf cart.

Everett was found in the wrecked car later Sunday morning about 20 miles away, just north of Saginaw.

Police say he later died of injuries suffered in the crash.

Police say the incident remains under investigation. Everett was from Greenbush Township.

The wreckage from the crash was thrown about on the lawn on Sunday

The police cruiser was discovered a short time later by law enforcement that Everett had crashed the patrol car at southbound US-23 near East Bessinger Road in Arenac County.

It's unknown at this time how Everett was able to gain access of the patrol car, police said. The incident remains under investigation.