Two dead in I-75 wrong-way car crash after police pursuit

Two people were killed on Friday after a police pursuit as they turned and drove the wrong way on I-75 and crashed into a tractor-trailer rig.

Officials are yet to tell why police initiated the traffic stop that preceded the crash.

Toledo police the traffic stop of two individuals in the car was initiated after which it led police on a pursuit “briefly” through residential streets and onto I-75 northbound at around 12:41 a.m.

At I-75 and the Alexis Road entrance ramp, the car exited the expressway north of Alexis and then got again into the expressway the wrong way, traveling south in the northbound lanes, at which point a Toledo Police Department command officer terminated the pursuit.

The vehicle then crashed with two northbound tractor-trailer rigs south of Alexis.

I-75 north was closed for some hours from Ottawa River Road to Alexis Road.