Stratford, CT : Two people were killed after a wrong-way driver collided head-on with another vehicle at Route 8 On Thursday, May 19th, 2016

Two people were killed early Thursday morning after a wrong-way driver collided head-on with another vehicle on Route 8.
Killed in the crash were Fernado J. Moreno-Rivas, 30, of Main Street in Stratford, and Kelly M. Wootten, 29, of Balance Rock Road in Seymour.
An investigation of the crash closed southbound Route 8 at Exit 15 in Derby, just before the Commodore Issac Hull Bridge, for about six hours. The highway reopened around 7 a.m.
According to an accident summary released by state police, Moreno-Rivas was traveling in the southbound right lane just before Exit 13 shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday.
Wootten was traveling northbound - in the southbound lane - and collided with Moreno-Rivas’s 2015 Chevy Tahoe.
Both Moreno-Rivas and Wootten “sustained serious bodily injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene,” according to state police.
Both Moreno-Rivas’s Tahoe and Wootten’s 2000 Chrysler Town and Country van had heavy front-end damage.
The two deaths on Thursday bring to five the number of people killed in Shelton traffic accidents this month.
On May 6, a 69-year-old Shelton woman died in a head-on crash on Route 110, across from Sports Center of CT. On May 12, a 54-year-old womam was killed by a hit and run driver. And on Monday, an 84-year-old Shelton man died after his car

slammed into a tree on Bridgeport Avenue.
Thursday’s double fatality happened in a deadly stretch of Route 8. The stretch of Route 8 is near Exit 13; an area people call "the Wiffle Ball exit" because the manufacturer of the plastic balls and bats is located just off Route 8.
In many of the seven fatal crashes in that area over the past seven years, vehicles have run into trees on the sides of the road, jumped guardrails or crashed into deep ravines. All the fatal accidents happened less than a mile from one another. Last

spring there were three accidents in the area that claim the lives of a 62-year-old Stratford woman, a 31-year-old Naugatuck man and a 20-year-old man from North Carolina.

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Two killed in wrong-way crash on Route 8