INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) - One person is dead and four others are suffering from significant injuries following a wrong-way crash in the Kansas City suburb of Independence, police said.
The crash happened around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday when a vehicle driving south in the northbound lanes of Little Blue Parkway hit another vehicle head-on, police said..
The driver and three passengers in the northbound car were taken to a hospital, where the driver died, police said. Authorities said one of the passengers in that car was in critical condition, while the other two were in stable condition.
The wrong-way driver also was hospitalized with significant injuries, police said, but was stable. Police had not released the names of those involved by Thursday morning.
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