COLUMBUS, Ohio — Three people were killed in a crash on Interstate 71 northbound just before the Polaris Parkway exit on Nov. 26.
Columbus police said a Honda Civic went southbound in the northbound lanes of I-71 at the Gemini Place exit. The Civic hit a Ford Escape head-on in the northbound lanes.
Police said T'naya Douglas, 19, and Zhaklya Jackson, 19, were in the Escape and taken to Riverside Methodist Hospital and Jacinto Mejia De La Cruz, 26, was driving the Honda Civic and taken to Mount Carmel St. Ann's. All three people were pronounced dead at the hospitals.
I-71 northbound was closed between I-270 and Polaris Parkway but the highway has since reopened.