A teen driver died Thursday morning after his van went off the road, went airborne and then caught fire, according to Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler. The crash happened at about 10:45 a.m. on Horse Creek Road. Fowler said that Thomas Wesley Lee, 17, of Chesnee, was headed east on Horse Creek Road at a high rate of speed when he ran off the left side of the road and struck a tree.According to Fowler, Lee was driving a 2004 Honda van south on Horse Creek Road."Another motorist, also headed south, reported the van passed her vehicle on the two-lane road at a high rate of speed," Fowler said in news release. "Lee lost control moments later and ran off the left side of the roadway, went airborne and came to rest after striking a tree. Following impact, the van caught fire."