A driver was killed in a crash while he was allegedly fleeing police in St. Cloud on Monday evening.

St. Cloud PD said the incident started at 10:41 p.m. when an officer on patrol saw a speeding driver on westbound University Driver near Killian Boulevard.

The driver, a 41-year-old St. Cloud man, was clocked going 62 mph in a 30 mph zone, with police attempting a traffic stop only for the man to flee.

Police started following the driver across the University Bridge, but reportedly abandoned the pursuit when the driver crossed into the wrong lane.

"The man continued driving at a high rate of speed and went through the roundabout at 5th Avenue, hitting a parked pickup truck and a light pole in the parking lot of an apartment building at the southwest corner of the intersection," police s

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