A Florida man was driving the wrong-way pickup truck that fatally collided with another pickup on I-85 in south Fulton County, police said Friday.
William Brock Wright, 49, was killed late Wednesday afternoon when his pickup slammed head-on into the other vehicle on northbound I-85 near Old National Highway and I-285.
“This truck was hauling southbound on the northbound lane, and he dodged a couple of people,” a 911 caller told an emergency operator. “Then he ran head-long into some kind of commercial truck. The car just totally disintegrated.”
“It just blew up. The driver of that truck is dead. There’s no way he lived,” the caller said.
The passenger in the second pick-up, 49-year-old Christopher O’Day of Canastota, N.Y., died at Grady Memorial Hospital, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The driver of that vehicle, Gary A. Tucker, 62, of Ilion, N.Y., remains in critical condition at Grady Memorial Hospital, Channel 2 Action News reported.
It was still unclear Friday where the wrong-way vehicle entered the highway.
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