Driver of vehicle involved in crash with tractor-trailer in Butler County was traveling wrong way
A man who was seriously injured in a crash that happened in Butler County was traveling the wrong way.
New details shared by Pennsylvania State Police said the 45-year-old driver of a 2005 Dodge Magnum was going 55 mph the wrong way when he crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer in the eastbound lanes of Route 422 in Summit Township on Tuesday.
The driver of the Magnum was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. The tractor-trailer driver from Georgia was not injured.
State police did not say what caused the driver to end up going the wrong way.
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