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A police chase that ended in a fiery crash and the death of an Arnprior grandmother has left at least one witness questioning whether police should have called off their pursuit.

“The chase should never have happened,” said Eric Bayley, who saw the “devastating” crash and took a photo of the truck just as it exploded.

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“If the guy robbed a bank they would have got him sooner or later. It was a stolen vehicle. Big freakin’ deal. Now a poor grandmother, mother, sister is dead.

“There’s no … way in hell those cops should have been chasing them down that … road.”

Sheila Welsh, 65, had just pulled out of her driveway at 133 Daniel St. S. in her silver Chevrolet Aveo when she was struck on the driver’s side by a stolen silver Ford F150 driven by a 20-year-old man.

Welsh, a mother of two and grandmother of five, was pronounced dead at the scene.