CLARKSBURG-

City man injured in crash following police chase A 20-year-old local man was listed in fair condition this morning at North Adams Regional Hospital following an early morning high-speed chase Sunday, that ended in a fiery crash on Middle Road. Clint Goman of Richmond Avenue Extension was hurt in the single-car crash and will face charges of

negligent driving and trying to elude police when he is released from the hospital, police said. According to police reports, Goman spun the wheels of a car on a street in the vicinity of the hospital at about 12:30 a.m., attracting the attention of local officers. A cruiser pursued and stopped the car after it hit a curb at the intersection of Eagle Street and Hospital Avenue, but Goman backed the car up and sped away, eventually escaping north, up Franklin

Street to Clarksburg, police said. North Adams officers lost the car, but moments later police received several 911 calls about an accident in Clarksburg. State Trooper Glenn Lagerwall reported arriving to find the car that Goman had been driving on fire. The trooper extinguished the blaze with his cruiser's fire extinguisher, according to police reports. Goman suffered multiple injuries and

was taken by ambulance to the hospital. The car was totaled. Police said Goman had borrowed the car from his girlfriend, Nicole Thomas, 19, of North Adams, but it actually belonged to her mother. Thomas will be cited for allowing Goman to use the car while knowing that his driver's license had been suspended, police said. The accident is still under investigation by local, Clarksburg and state police. The North Adams Fire Department, Clarksburg Fire Department and North Adams Ambulance Service also responded.