GREENSBORO, N.C. — Two people were killed on Christmas Eve in an early-morning crash that shut down a busy Greensboro highway.
It happened around 2:45 a.m. Police were called to Interstate 40 westbound near S. Elm-Eugene Street for the crash. Investigators said William Junior Grimes, 50, was driving a 2004 GMC Envoy the wrong way on the freeway when he crashed head-on into a 1960 Ford Thunderbird being driven by Tony Hester Vinson, 50.
Grimes and Vinson were killed. The front seat passenger in Vinson's car, 38-year-old Traveras Trenten Chrisp was taken to Moses Cone Hospital with serious injuries.
The westbound lanes of I-40 between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and S. Elm-Eugene Street were closed. Roads were reopened around 8:30 a.m.
Investigators are working to learn why Grimes was on the wrong side of the road.