The driver of a car that crashed into a tree after a high-speed police chase on the Eastern Shore has died of his injuries, Maryland State Police said this morning.

Richard Todd Mohr, 33, of Tail of the Fox Drive in Ocean Pines near Ocean City, was pronounced dead yesterday at 5:45 p.m. at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, according to authorities at the Berlin barracks in Worcester County.

Police said the chase began about 2:50 a.m. yesterday when a trooper tried to pull over a 2002 silver Honda S2000 that was clocked on radar speeding at 100 mph on westbound Route 90, near St. Martins Neck Road. Police said the driver refused to stop.



Police said troopers twice lost sight of the car and that during the pursuit they stayed at least 500 feet behind the vehicle. They said the chase went west on Route 90 and then north on Route 589 for about five minutes before the Honda swerved into the Ocean Pines community and struck a tree in front of a house.

A State Police helicopter flew Mohr to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, and he later was transferred to Shock Trauma in Baltimore.

Police said Mohr had been driving on a revoked license.