One person died and another was injured in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 270 in northeastern Franklin County, the sheriff’s office said.
At 12:47 a.m. on April 23 a Chevrolet Cruze was traveling northbound and the wrong way in the southbound lanes of I-270, just north of Dempsey Road in Blendon Township, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The Cruze collided head-on with an Audi A3 traveling southbound.
The drivers of both vehicles were transported to Mount Carmel East Hospital in critical condition. The driver of the Chevrolet was pronounced dead at 1:32 a.m. The names of the drivers had not been released by 1 p.m. on April 22.
The interstate was closed for several hours while the sheriff’s office investigated the crash scene and the vehicles were cleared before the freeway was reopened.
Public Safety and Breaking News Reporter Bailey Gallion can be reached at bagallion@dispatch.com.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Wrong-way crash on I-270 kills one, injures another
Reporting by Bailey Gallion, Columbus Dispatch / The Columbus Dispatch
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