DETROIT (WWJ) -- Michigan State Police are investing a pair of deadly wrong-way driving crashes, both of them along I-75 early Saturday morning.
In the first incident, at around 2:30 p.m., police responded to reports of a white SUV travelling in the northbound lanes of on southbound I-75 near Springwells in Detroit.
Officials with the MSP Second District said troopers arrived at the scene to find a three-car crash.
One person in a Kia vehicle was dead, MSP said.
The alleged wrong way driver in the SUV and another driver in a Volkswagen were both taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
MSP First Lt. Mike Shaw said the investigation is ongoing.
“Troopers and our crash reconstructionist are continuing to determine the cause of this crash and exactly what happened.” said Shaw. “This includes how the wrong way driver got on the freeway and if they were impaired.”
Police also said "an impatient driver" tried to drive around that closure and then hit an MSP patrol car on the scene.
While no names or other information about the people involved in this incident have been released, MSP noted that their families have been notified.
The southbound freeway was closed for about six hours following the crash, but has since reopened.
In a second unrelated incident, MSP said dispatchers received 911 calls at around 4:30 a.m. about a wrong-way driver in the area of southbound I-75, near Outer Drive.
Freeway cameras were able to locate the suspect vehicle, a Mitsubishi, after it crashed into a Ford Fusion near Schaefer.
The driver of the Fusion, identified as a 39-year-old man from Detroit, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to MSP.
The wrong way driver, identified as a 26-year-old Detroit woman, was alive on the scene but was badly hurt, police said,
She was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Police said they're still investigating whether the woman may have been drunk, or under the influence of drugs.
Shaw said the families of all those involved have been notified by troopers.
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