The southbound lanes of the North Freeway near Quitman are now reopened after a wrong-way crash early Thursday morning claimed the lives of both drivers involved.
The crash was reported around 2:35 a.m. when a vehicle traveling northbound in the southbound lanes collided head-on with another car, according to investigators.
According to Houston police, the driver traveling in the correct direction was a man heading home from work. The wrong-way driver was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes when the collision occurred.
KPRC 2 was able to obtain the identities of the two men who were killed from the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences. The victims were identified as 37-year-old Emmanuel Blanco and 31-year-old Broderick West.
It is still unclear which driver was traveling on the wrong side of the road at the time of the crash.
Houston police revealed that the family of one of the drivers involved in Thursday morning’s deadly wrong-way crash on I-45 South was notified of the incident through an alert on their phone. The family rushed to the scene after receiving the notification.
This is a developing story.