FARMINGTON HILLS, MI \u2014 A man has been arrested in connection with a deadly wrong-way crash in Oakland County, according to police.<\/p>\n
The crash happened at 4:34 a.m. on March 13 on Interstate 696 near Halsted Road in Farmington Hills, according to police.<\/p>\n
Police said an 81-year-old Detroit man was driving a white van the wrong way and crashed head-on into a Chevrolet Blazer SUV.<\/p>\n
The man was taken to a nearby hospital where he died, according to police.<\/p>\n
The driver of the SUV, 26-year-old Richard Leon-Zghen, was also injured in the crash. He was taken to Corewell Hospital Farmington Hills and is expected to make a full recovery, according to police.<\/p>\n
Investigators initially believed the driver of the van was at fault. But digital forensic evidence determined that Leon-Zghen caused the crash.<\/p>\n
Police did not release additional details about the crash.<\/p>\n
Leon-Zghen was charged with reckless driving causing death, which is a 15-year felony. He was placed in jail with a $250,000 bond.<\/p>\n
Police are still investigating the crash and asked anyone with information to call the Farmington Hills Police Command Desk at 248-871-2610.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FARMINGTON HILLS, MI \u2014 A man has been arrested in connection with a deadly wrong-way crash in Oakland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-232877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}