SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah — A section of Interstate 15 was closed in the early hours of Wednesday morning due to a deadly wrong-way crash that killed one person in Salt Lake County.
The northbound lanes of the freeway were closed at 2300 North and reopened just after 6:30 Wednesday morning.
Utah Highway Patrol said a wrong-way vehicle traveling southbound in the northbound lanes hit a northbound vehicle head-on at around 2 a.m. Wednesday.
The driver who was traveling in the correct direction, an adult male, was killed and the wrong-way driver, an adult female, was taken to the hospital in life-threatening condition.
She has since been upgraded to serious and non-life-threatening condition.
Officials say the man who died was wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.
There were no other passengers in either one of the vehicles, UHP reports.
Officials say impairment is suspected but an investigation is underway.
