FINNEYTOWN, Ohio — One person is dead after a wrong-way crash on Ronald Reagan Highway Wednesday morning.
The crash happened at 1:20 a.m. under the overpass at Mockingbird Lane in Finneytown, Hamilton County dispatch said.
Walter Johnson, 80, was driving a 2002 Honda eastbound in the westbound lanes on the highway before the crash, Springfield Township police said.
Johnson and another driver in a 2014 Fiat crashed head-on, police said.
Springfield Township police said Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene. The other driver was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in serious condition, police said.
Video of the crash sent to us showed one of the cars on fire and on its side. Both cars had heavy damage.
The westbound lanes were closed for several hours as crews worked to move the cars and clear the lanes.
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