WEST CHESTER--A serious wrong-way crash on Interstate 75 in Butler County has left two people with life-threatening injuries. Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers say it happened just after 2:20 this morning north of mile marker 18 in West Chester Township. A 54-year-old Fairfield man driving a Honda Civic was heading southbound in the northbound lanes when he slammed head-on into a Honda Accord. The impact sent the Civic into the median and spun the Accord into the path of a northbound semi-truck. A third vehicle then struck debris in the roadway. Troopers say impairment is suspected in the crash. Both the Civic and Accord were reported to be driving recklessly before the accident. The wrong-way driver, Damon Holloway, and the Accord’s driver, 26-year-old Juan Gabriel Espinoza Lopez of Middletown, both had to be cut out of their vehicles. They were taken to UC Medical Center with serious, life-threatening injuries. The other two drivers were not hurt. All northbound lanes of I-75 were shut down for nearly five and a half hours before reopening just before 7:50 this morning. The Hamilton Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol continues to investigate.

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