CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — An 83-year-old woman died after causing a wrong-way crash on Oct. 1.
Corpus Christi Police Department officers said when they arrived at the 7700 block of State Hwy. 358 at around 12:45 a.m., a Ram was on fire and the 28-year-old driver had just managed to get out of it.
The woman, who was driving a Honda CRV, had died on impact in the head-on collision.
The man was taken to a local hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said their investigation determined the woman had been driving the wrong way in the left lane. They said they're unsure how she got onto the highway.
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