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GHENT, N.Y. -- A 26-year-old Minnesota woman has died after she crashed her SUV after she was pulled over by sheriff's deputies in Upstate New York and then sped away.

The accident happened around 11:45 p.m. Saturday on Route 9 in the town of Ghent, the Columbia County Sheriff's Office said. A deputy pulled over an SUV that was driving in the wrong lane.

As the deputy walked toward her SUV, the sheriff's office said, the driver, Kasandra Solverson, sped away.