Athens police Thursday questioned the surviving passenger in Kurt Lavon Farrar’s car, but she had no answers as to why Farrar led police on a high-speed chase that ended in his death late Wednesday.

“She said while he was speeding away that she asked him why and he kept replying that, ‘I can beat him,’” Detective-Sgt. Trevor Harris said the passenger, Anella Heaton, 31, of Harvest, told him from her hospital bed in Huntsville Hospital. “She said he kept saying, ‘I can beat this, I can run away’ and gave her no other explanation as to why he kept accelerating.”

Harris said police searched Farrar’s car and found no contraband inside. The car was demolished when it crashed into a city utility pole on Glaze Road near the intersection of Quinn Road.

Farrar, 31, of 11439 Cowford Road, southwest Limestone County, died from injuries sustained in the wreck. Heaton was listed in good condition Thursday in Huntsville Hospital after she was airlifted from the scene by Medflight.

Harris said Heaton, who moved here about a month ago from Atlanta, Ga., said she met Farrar about two weeks ago. She said he called her Wednesday and asked if she would like to go riding with him to town and she agreed. She told police they had been to Athens and were on their way to his mother’s home Wednesday when they drove through the school zone at Athens Intermediate School.

“She said they both noticed the officer in the church yard in the school zone and that he (Farrar) accelerated at a high rate of speed,” Harris said. “She said at no time did she ever see or hear the officer behind them. But she said he kept accelerating.”

Heaton told police that when they approached the Glaze and Quinn Road intersection that they barely missed a white car at that intersection. That is when their car went airborne, hit a culvert and then crashed into a city utility pole, cutting the car almost in half. It came to rest in the yard of a nearby resident.

Athens Policeman Charles Clem said he gave chase after the car came through the school zone going 60 mph in a 35 mph zone. He said he never caught up to the car and had lost it when he stopped and someone told him they had heard a crash. He said he then found the wreckage.

Clem estimated the driver of the car was speeding in excess of 100 mph.

“He had to be really moving,” the officer said. “I was never able to catch up with him and stay safe. I did not see him wreck.”

Police were attempting to determine Thursday if Farrar has an arrest history.