NEW YORK — A man driving the wrong way down the Willis Avenue Bridge in a stolen car died in a crash on Monday morning after colliding with another vehicle, police said.
The 30-year-old man, whose name has not been released yet, was driving a 2009 Mitsubishi Galant that had been stolen from the South Bronx and entered the Willis Avenue Bridge at East 135th Street in the wrong direction, according to the NYPD.
He was traveling southbound on the bridge and collided with a 2013 Buick Century traveling north along the bridge around 11 a.m., police said.
The driver of the Galant was unconscious and unresponsive when officers arrived, and EMS workers took him to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead just before 5 p.m., according to police.
Peter Diaz-Cargulia, 28, was driving the Buick, and he and his two passengers all suffered minor injuries and were taken to Lincoln Hospital as well, police said.
Diaz-Cargulia was arrested after investigators found out he had been driving with a suspended license, and the investigation into the crash is ongoing, according to the NYPD.
