ARLINGTON (1080 KRLD) - A man was killed in a fiery wrong-way crash overnight.
Marcus McCarty, 35, of Fort Worth was pronounced dead at 3:30 a.m. on I-30 at Center St.
"We started getting phone calls that there was a Chevrolet Impala driving eastbound in the westbound lanes of I-30," says Tim Ciesco, Arlington Police spokesman. "We started getting calls when this vehicle was all the way back at 820."
McCarty managed to go seven miles in the wrong lanes before the fatal crash.
"It appears that he tried to go into some of the closed HOV lanes right around Center St.," says Ciesco. "And while he was passing through that area, (he) hit a barrier, lost control of his car and crashed into another barrier, and the car caught on fire."
McCarty was pronounced dead at the scene.
Miraculously, no one else was injured.
"We did get one report from a driver who said that they had to swerve out of the way to avoid being hit head-on by this driver," says Ciesco. "But apart from that, as far as we know, there were no other cars that he hit or sideswiped or anything."
Police believe based on the investigation that alcohol and speed were factors in the deadly crash.
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