DECATUR, Ga. — A person is now dead, and charges are expected for a wrong-way driver after a head-on crash on I-20 early Wednesday morning, according to the DeKalb County Police Department.
Officials began working the crash around 3:17 a.m. on August 16 and expect to have lanes clear by 6:15 a.m., the department website said. The crash happened on I-20 at Wesley Chapel Road in the westbound lanes, GDOT said.
Authorities said that a car was traveling the wrong way in the westbound lanes of the interstate when it hit another car head-on.
Both drivers of each car were taken to a local hospital, but the driver that was hit later died, DeKalb County Police added.
The crash closed the road for hours in Decatur; lanes have since reopened. Charges are pending for the wrong-way driver, and the investigation is still active, according to the department.
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