WPD Investigating Fatal Crash

Wheeling Police are investigating a two vehicle crash that killed one person late Friday night.

Police were called to the eastbound I-70 Exit 2A off-ramp near Perkins restaurant around 11:40 p.m. 

A vehicle drove the wrong way up the ramp and collided with another car. As a result, the at fault driver died, and a passenger was seriously injured. Others involved in the crash did not require immediate medical attention.

The victims name is not being released at this time and the crash remains under investigation.

In an unrelated incident, around 12:25 a.m., police responded to a single vehicle crash in the 600 block of Fulton Street. No one was seriously injured. That crash also remains under investigation.

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