UPDATE: TROY POLICE INVESTIGATE EARLY MORNING FATAL VEHICLE CRASH
City of Troy, Michigan sent this bulletin at 01/27/2020 11:12 AM ESTFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 27, 2020
UPDATE: TROY POLICE INVESTIGATE EARLY MORNING FATAL VEHICLE CRASH
Troy Police are investigating a fatal vehicle crash that occurred on southbound I-75 north of 14 Mile, south of E. Maple.
On Sunday January 26 at 4:17 A.M. Troy Police Dispatch was alerted by Madison Heights Police that a vehicle was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of I-75 north of Twelve Mile. Troy Officers responded to the area and located a serious crash involving the wrong way driver and a second vehicle that had been southbound on I-75.
The at fault driver, who was northbound in the southbound lanes of I-75 in a 2011 Chevrolet Malibu is a 34 year old female from Detroit. She was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The victim driver who was southbound on I-75 driving a 2019 Dodge Challenger is a 26 year old male from Troy. He was transported to Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital by Alliance Mobile Health where he was pronounced deceased.
It is currently unknown if drugs or alcohol was a contributing factor in this crash. We do not expect the return of the toxicology report from the medical examiner’s office for several weeks.
The Troy Police Department does not anticipate any criminal prosecution as the at fault driver is deceased.
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MEDIA INQUIRIES: Lt. Josh Jones, 248.885.1976 (cell), jonesj@troymi.gov
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