EUCLID, Ohio -- Dashboard camera video released by State Highway Patrol shows a fiery wrong-way crash that killed two late Wednesday on Interstate 90 in Euclid.

A trooper engaged in a brief chase with a 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix that began just before midnight along the eastbound lane of the highway near the Euclid Avenue interchange. The Grand Prix driver turned around and drove in the wrong direction in the same lane.

The Pontiac crashed head-on into a 2001 Kia Sportage, the Highway Patrol said.

State Highway Patrol has released dash camera footage of a fiery fatal crash that led a Cleveland man and a Garfield Heights man dead.

Vernon Hayes, 28, of Cleveland was driving the Pontiac. He was pronounced dead after an ambulance took him to University Hospitals Richmond Medical Center, the Highway Patrol said.

Johnell Smith, 41, of Garfield Heights was driving the Kia. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the Highway Patrol said.

The pursuit reached speeds of 90 mph. The State Highway Patrol has not said why the trooper tried to stop Hayes.

The dash cam video shows the trooper pursued Hayes for about four minutes before the crash.

The trooper can be heard reporting the crash and later pleading with motorists who stopped to help get the drivers out of their respective cars. The Pontiac caught fire and smoke billowed from its front end, the video shows.

Several ran to aid the trooper troopers and an ambulance arrived and paramedics helped get the drivers out of the cars.

A trooper spotted Hayes just before midnight heading east and he refused to stop when the trooper turned on his lights, reaching speeds of more than 90 mph. The Highway Patrol has not said why troopers wanted to stop Hayes.

The patrol says neither driver was wearing a seatbelt. The crash remains under investigation.

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