UPDATE: A 49-year-old man from Lookout Mountain, GA is dead and three others are injured after a crash that stemmed from a high-speed pursuit Saturday.

Donald Brandon Franks, 49, succumbed to injuries received in the head-on collision on Highway 53 in Gordon County, according to coroner Nick Blalock.

A 35-year-old woman and a 9-year-old boy were in the same car as Franks. Emergency crews airlifted them to the hospital. We're working to learn their condition.

The crash was caused by a suspect fleeing from Gordon County Sheriff's Deputies. His name has not been released.

During the pursuit, he reportedly attempted to make a right turn onto Highway 53, but was "traveling too fast to negotiate the turn" and crossed through a grass median into the westbound lanes of travel, according to G

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