Columbus man identified as driver of wrong-way SUV in fatal, head-on Route 161 crash

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Columbus man identified as driver of wrong-way SUV in fatal, head-on Route 161 crash
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Columbus police report Wendell H. Lowe, 27, of Downtown, drove onto Route 161 the wrong way early Sunday from Sunbury Road, causing a fatal crash.

A Columbus man has been identified in a police traffic crash report as the driver of the wrong-way SUV that crashed head-on into a car early Sunday on Ohio Route 161, killing a Newark-area man and injuring another.

Erickson had exited Interstate 270 southbound and was on the ramp entering Route 161 just west of Sunbury Road with his passenger, James Jean-Charles, 35, of West Locust Street, Newark, when the crash occurred, the report states.

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