Head-on I-40 crash kills both drivers
Updated: Thursday, 26 Nov 2009, 4:57 PM MST
Published : Wednesday, 25 Nov 2009, 10:25 PM MST
CARNUEL, N.M (KRQE) - The westbound lanes of Interstate 40 remained closed late Wednesday night after a wrong-way driver slammed head-on into another vehicle in Tijeras Canyon just east of Albuquerque.
The drivers of both vehicles died in the crash.
The driver of the wrong-way vehicle was identified Thursday as Katherine Cullen, 56, of Santa Fe, and the driver of the other vehicle was identified as Judith Bjorkman, 56, of Edgewood.
Bjorkman's 2-year-old grandchild was transported to the Univeristy of New Mexico Hospital.
The collision occurred about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday east of the Carnuel exit.
Sheriff's investigators had yet to determine where the wrong-way driver got on the freeway.
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