The Knoxville Police Department has identified the victim of a wrong-way fatal crash on Jan. 28 as Carlos Castillo-Vasquez, 27, of Birmingham, Alabama, a spokesperson from the police department said.
At around 3 a.m. Jan. 28, several cars crashed on Interstate 640 East near Western Avenue, the spokesperson said in a press release.
Minutes before the crash, officers had been notified of a car traveling west in the eastbound lanes of I-640, the release said. Based on the investigation, police say Castillo-Vasquez was driving a sedan on I-640 East when he hit a pickup truck head-on and was then struck head-on by another vehicle.
Castillo-Vasquez was pronounced dead at the scene, the release said. The driver and passenger in the truck were transported to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.
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