A wrong-way driver was killed after crashing his car into a pickup truck Saturday morning on the West Side.
Albuquerque Police Department spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said the driver of the truck, a woman, was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, while the man driving the wrong way died at the scene.
Gallegos said an officer was traveling south on Unser around 7 a.m. and witnessed the crash.
He said the officer saw a gold car turn left from Vista Alegre NW and head south in the northbound lanes of Unser.
Gallegos said the officer was “getting ready to radio in the wrong-way driver” when he saw the car crash head-on into a truck, which was going north on Unser.
The APD spokesman said speed and alcohol were not factors on the part of the woman driving the truck.
“It is unknown if the male driver of the Toyota Camry was intoxicated at the time of the crash,” Gallegos said. “No charges are pending at this time. The investigation is on-going.”
