Washington County, MD: Two died and women seriously injured in wrong-way crash along I-70 on Tuesday, August 4th 2015

Two men died and a woman was seriously injured early Tuesday when a car traveling the wrong way on Interstate 70 collided with a tractor-trailer, according to Maryland State Police.James L. Benge Jr., 22, of Fruitland, Md., and Mohamud S. Ali, 35, of Eagen, Minn., were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, police said in a news release.Ali was driving a 2011 Freightliner tractor and pulling a 2016 Vanguard trailer loaded with grapes.Benge was a passenger in a 2007 Kia Rio that was driven by his mother, Kim Benge, 57, also of Fruitland.She was taken to Meritus Medical Center near Hagerstown then transferred to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.The Rio was westbound in the eastbound lanes of the interstate and collided with the tractor-trailer, which was eastbound, according to a preliminary police investigation. The tractor-trailer then struck a bridge abutment, police said.

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