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PARKERSBURG - The Wood County Sheriff's Office has identified the Little Hocking man who died Thursday after a wrong-way collision outside Parkersburg.
Ishmael Smith, 84, 68 Haynes Road, Little Hocking, was found dead at the scene of the crash around 2:47 p.m.Thursday at mile marker 6 in the eastbound lanes of Robert C. Byrd Highway, according to a post this afternoon on the Wood County Sheriff's Office Facebook page.
Smith was driving a 2022 Cadillac SUV when he entered the eastbound lanes of Robert C. Byrd Highway from Division Street, traveling west, the post said.
The Cadillac struck a 2016 Mercedes sedan driven by Cindy R. Lowden, 57, of Washington, W.Va., head on, it said. That vehicle was then rear-ended by a 2018 semi driven by Maato D. Ssebbowa, 40, of Fishers, Ind.
Lowden was taken to WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center with what the post described as non-life-threatening injuries. Ssebowa was not injured.
Wood County Sheriff Rick Woodyard said it was not clear why Smith was driving the wrong way.
Also responding to the scene were members of the Wood County Crash Team, Parkersburg Police and Fire departments, the Camden Clark and St. Joseph's Ambulance services and the Wood County coroner.