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Law enforcement and Albuquerque Fire Rescue personnel at the scene of a wrong way fatal crash on Interstate 40 at San Mateo Sunday morning. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
Police and Albuquerque Fire Rescue at the scene of a wrong way fatal crash on I-40 at San Mateo. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
Part of Interstate 40 in the Albuquerque area has been closed for hours due to a fatal crash early Sunday morning.
Sgt. Tanner Tixier, an Albuquerque Police Department spokesman, said officers were dispatched to westbound I-40 at San Mateo.
“Upon arrival they discovered that a passenger vehicle was traveling the wrong direction on the freeway and struck a semi-truck,” Tixier said. “The wrong way driver was pronounced deceased on scene.”