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PLAINVILLE, Mass. — A driver was killed Thursday morning after going the wrong way down 495 southbound.
Reports of a wrong-way driver came in to police around 2 a.m. The driver was seen going north on Routh 495 southbound in Plainville, between Exits 13 and 14.
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By the time officers arrived, police say the wrong-way driver had crashed into an oncoming vehicle. The wrong-way driver was killed; the other driver was taken to Rhode Island Hospital with serious injuries.
The wrong-way driver killed in the crash was later identified as 22-year-old James Keating from Norton. He had been driving a Toyota Corolla. The other driver was identified as a 21-year-old Barnstable woman driving a Hyundai Santa Fe.
The right and middle lanes of 495 southbound were shut down immediately after the crash.
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No further information was immediately available.
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