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Bowie Co. man killed in wrong-way interstate wreck

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TEXARKANA, TX (KSLA) -

A Bowie County man is dead, after getting on I-30 going the wrong way and colliding head-on with an 18-wheeler.

It happened around midnight Friday. The Texarkana, Texas Police Department says 50-year-old Douglas Crosby entered the highway heading west-bound in the east-bound lanes in his 1996 Oldsmobile and had just passed under the Richmond Road overpass when driver of the oncoming 18-wheeler tried to swerve right to miss the Oldsmobile but was unable to do so.

Crosby was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the 18-wheeler, 54-year-old Peter Unger of Ontario, Canada, was taken to the hospital as a precaution.

Police say the investigation into this wreck is ongoing.

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