A wrong-way driver on State Route 167 caused a head-on collision that injured two and blocked the roadway for several hours, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Sunday at approximately 3:08 a.m., a vehicle traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of SR 167, approaching South 277th Street in the HOV lane, sideswiped another vehicle before colliding head-on with a vehicle in the northbound HOV lane.
Both the wrong-way vehicle and the vehicle it struck head-on caught fire.
The roadway was blocked for approximately three hours and 30 minutes.
The driver of the wrong-way vehicle, identified as 22-year-old Jose F. Zacarias Sebastian of Tacoma, was injured and transported to Harborview Medical Center.
He is facing charges of vehicular assault.
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