A female passenger in a car that was struck by another vehicle being chased by a deputy Suffolk sheriff on Sunrise Highway has died, authorities said.

The chase began a few minutes after 1 p.m. when Riverhead police radioed the description of a car wanted in connection with a larceny at the Tanger Outlet in Riverhead, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.

A deputy spotted the vehicle, a black Lincoln Town Car, at Exit 68 of the Long Island Expressway at William Floyd Parkway in Shirley and pulled it over at Exit 64 in Medford. The driver, in the car along with two passengers, sped away after the deputy got out of the vehicle, the spokeswoman said.

The Town Car then crashed into another vehicle on the north service road of Sunrise Highway near Exit 50 in Bohemia, said Chief Michael Sharkey of the Suffolk Sheriff's Department. The female passenger and the male driver in the other vehicle were both taken to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore.

The woman was later pronounced dead at Southside and the driver remains there, police said. No information on his condition was available and the identities of the two were not released.

The three in the Town Car were also hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries and were not identified, Sharkey said. They were arrested and charges are pending.