Wrong-way driver killed after hitting tractor trailer truck

GLASTONBURY, Conn.

An Ohio man has died after the car he was driving the wrong way on a Connecticut highway slammed head-on into a tractor trailer truck.

State police say 27-year-old Christian Alvarez Villarini, of Cleveland, was pronounced dead at the scene Monday.

The Hartford Courant reports Alvarez Villarini was driving west in the eastbound lane of Route 2 in Glastonbury, a Hartford suburb, when his Toyota Solara crashed into the big rig.

The driver of the tractor trailer, 49-year-old George Bolsar of Jessup, Pa., sustained minor injuries. He’s being treated at Hartford Hospital.

Associated Press