Nashville, TN : One killed in wrong-way crash on Ellington Parkway on Monday morning, September 26, 2016

One person was killed in a wrong-way crash on Ellington Parkway on Monday morning.

The crash occurred just before 11:30 a.m. when a car entered Ellington Parkway going the wrong direction, according to Metro Police dispatch.

Northbound lanes of Ellington Parkway were closed north of Trinity Lane for a couple of hours after the crash.

Police later identified the victim as 83-year-old Doris Vanmoerkerke.

Police believe Vanmoerkerke got on Ellington Parkway somewhere around Briarville Road and was traveling southbound in the northbound lane.

Vanmoerkerke hit another vehicle head-on. The driver of that vehicle, 47-year-old Melton Fields, was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with serious but not life-threatening injuries, police said.

Vanmoerkerke was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said there was no evidence on the scene to suggest she was impaired.

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1 killed in wrong-way crash on Ellington Parkway