Deadly Wrong Way Crash

(WOLO) COLUMBIA,S.C., — A man is facing a drunken driving charge in a wrong-way Richland County crash that killed another driver on Interstate 20. Highway Patrol Lance Cp. Sonny Collins says 51-year-old Jesse Samuels Jr. has been charged with felony driving under the influence. Collins says the crash happened at around 5:30 a.m. He says Samuels was driving his pickup truck east in the westbound lane of I-20 when he hit another truck. Richland County Coroner Gary Watts says the other driver, 41-year-old Donald Jerome Ford, was taken to a hospital, where he later died. It wasn’t known if Samuels had an attorney. (Source: Associate Press)

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