Dashcam captures wrong way driver before fatal crash on I-95

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Saturday, May 4, 2019
Dashcam captures wrong way driver before fatal crash on I-95
Dashcam captures wrong way driver before fatal crash on I-95. Walter Perez reports during Action News at 5 p.m. on May 4, 2019.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- One person was killed and another injured in a wrong way crash on I-95 in Philadelphia overnight.

Action News photojournalist Bill Trenwith was on I-95 around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, and just happened to have his dashcam rolling, when the driver blew past him going south in the northbound lanes.

Police say moments later that wrong way driver, a 26-year-old man from Philadelphia was killed when their vehicle collided head-on with another vehicle near Aramingo Avenue in the city's Port Richmond neighborhood.

Watch the full dashcam video of wrong way driver on I-95 moments before fatal crash.

Police say the man side-swiped two vehicles before hitting a third head-on.

The force of the crash sent his vehicle into another lane causing a fourth crash.

The 26-year-old man was declared dead at the scene.

The drivers of the other four vehicles were hospitalized with non life-threatening injuries.

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