MIDDLEBORO, MASS. (WHDH) - New details in a car crash in Middleboro that killed five people.

Police say a wrong-way driver was high and drunk at the time of the crash. Police said the driver of that car was speeding and had been at a party where she drank and smoked marijuana in the hours leading up to the crash.

The cars collided head-on when the driver got onto I-495 North in the wrong direction.

Four college students were in the car that was hit. They were killed, along with the driver in the other car.

 

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