GRAY, La. — A second person has now died after a driver traveling the wrong way on Highway 90 drove head on into an SUV with two people inside, the Louisiana State Police said Friday.
The crash occurred on April 3 in Gray, Louisiana. Police said Katelynn Scott was traveling west on the eastbound off-ramp of Highway 90 and then entered the eastbound lanes in the wrong direction, slamming head-on into a Toyota Highlander being driven by 77-year-old Joseph Sias of New Orleans.
Wayne Thomas, 63, of Los Angeles, was a passenger in Sias’ vehicle.
State Police said that neither Sias nor Thomas was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. Sias was pronounced dead at the scene. Thomas succumbed to his injuries Friday.
Police said Scott showed signs of being impaired and was arrested on counts of vehicular homicide, DWI, and driving on a divided highway. Police said Scott gave a breath sample that indicated a blood alcohol level over the legal limit. Toxicology was also done on Sias and those results have not yet come in.
