ATLANTA — One man died and another man was critically injured after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 285.
Atlanta police said the crash happened Sunday around 3:36 a.m. in the northbound lanes near the Benjamin E. Mays bridge.
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Police said the 24-year-old was heading southbound in a Toyota Tacoma truck when he crashed head-on into a 40-year-old man driving a Nissan Sentra.
The Nissan driver died at the scene. On Monday, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the Nissan driver as Bradford Stephens.
The Toyota driver is in the hospital in critical condition. The wrong-way crash remains under investigation.
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