COLUMBUS – A car driving the wrong way on a North Side interstate early Wednesday collided with a van, killing the passenger in the car and sending the drivers of both vehicles to the hospital.
Paris Malee Siripavaket, of Columbus, was travelling northbound in the southbound lanes of I-71 at Weber Road shortly after 12:30 a.m. when her Scion xB struck a Ford Transit van travelling southbound, Sgt. Brooke Wilson of the Accident Investigation Unit said.
Siripavaket’s passenger, whose name was withheld by police pending notification of next-of-kin, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Siripavaket and the driver of the van, James Roberts, were taken to Grant Medical Center for treatment.
The investigation is ongoing, Wilson said.
A section of southbound I-71 from I-270 to Weber Road was shut down for about five hours during the investigation.