A wrong-way crash on Interstate 35 early Sunday morning in Fort Worth resulted in one fatality and left two others hospitalized with serious injuries, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.
Officers responded to a major accident call around 1:07 a.m. near the northbound lanes of I-35 at Berry Street. Investigators said a vehicle traveling southbound in the northbound lanes collided head-on with another car, NBC 5 DFW reported.
The vehicle driving the wrong way had a single occupant. The other vehicle carried a driver and a passenger. The passenger in the struck vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene. The drivers of both vehicles were transported to a nearby hospital with serious injuries, police said.
Police have not said where they believe the car entered the highway heading in the wrong direction. The names of those involved have not been released, and the crash remains under investigation.
Just last month, a wrong-way crash on the Dallas North Tollway killed one person and critically injured six others, The Dallas Express reported. Wrong-way crashes on Texas roadways claim more than 70 lives each year, according to the AAA Foundation.