(CBS-DETROIT) – A wrong-way driver was killed early Saturday morning when he collided head-on with a DDOT bus on the Lodge Freeway, Michigan State Police said.
The crash happened around 4:40 a.m. Saturday when a Ram truck driven by a 58-year-old man was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of the Lodge Freeway near Log Cabin Street.
According to police, the Ram struck the DDOT bus in a head-on collision and immediately caught fire. Officers were unable to save the man.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are in the process of notifying his family.
The bus driver was transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
According to police, there were no passengers on the bus at the time of the accident. The wrong-way driver also struck a third vehicle, a Jeep Compass. The driver of the Jeep was taken to an area hospital with what police said were non-life-threatening injuries.
“At this time it has not been determined where the wrong-way driver entered the highway and why he was driving the wrong way,” MSP Lt. Mike Shaw said in a statement.
An investigation is underway.
