Another wrong-way accident kills three in Dallas, Texas
Three people were killed in a car accident caused by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 20 in
Early Friday morning, a black Infiniti sedan was traveling east in the westbound lanes of I-20 when it crashed head-on into a jeep. It is unclear where the driver entered the interstate or for how long he was driving the wrong way before the accident occurred.
Twenty-nine-year old Rimiro Moreno, the driver of the sedan, and his passenger, Ian Edward Pierson, 23, both died at the scene. The driver of the jeep, Karla Rivers, 45, also died at the scene. Rivers was a dispatcher at
The accident shut down the westbound lanes of I-20 for around five hours while police investigated the scene and the wreckage was cleared.
Toxicology reports will be needed to confirm if drinking was a contributing factor, but police have said that they located evidence of alcohol in the sedan.
This fatal car accident is the latest in a tragic series of wrong-way accidents that have plagued highways in the
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