The wrong-way driver slammed into another car on a toll road in Orange County. Video broadcast Monday Sept. 16, 2024 on Today in LA.
A wrong-way driver was killed Sunday night in fiery crash with another car on an Orange County toll road.
The wrong-way driver crashed at about 9:30 p.m. on the southbound Highway 73 toll road near MacArthur Boulevard in Newport Beach. The California Highway Patrol said witnesses reported the wrong-way driver traveling at high speed before crashing head-on into a BMW.
Burned wreckage was scattered across several lanes. The wrong-way diver died at the scene.
The BMW driver was hospitalized. Details about that driver's condition were not immediately available.
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