Late Thursday night, around 11:03 PM, Houston Police Department officers were alerted to reports of a wrong-way driver on Westbound 225, near Goodyear. Before officers could arrive, a Pontiac traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes collided head-on with a blue Mustang.
The impact of the collision was severe. The Mustang’s occupant was rushed to a nearby trauma center with injuries but is expected to survive. Tragically, the wrong-way driver, a male in his 20s or 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities report that the driver died from the impact before the vehicle caught fire. Houston Police are investigating the circumstances that led to the fatal crash.