A 60-year-old man was identified as the innocent driver killed early Monday in a fiery, head-on crash involving a robbery suspect who was driving the wrong way on Interstate 435 while fleeing from Kansas City police, a police spokeswoman said Thursday.
Alphonso Carroll, who was in a Chevrolet Equinox crossover SUV, was the driver killed in the crash that occurred about 4:30 a.m. Monday, said Officer Alayna Gonzalez with the Kansas City Police Department.
Carroll was headed north on Interstate 435 when a robbery suspect in a black Dodge Challenger allegedly trying to evade police by driving the wrong direction on I-435 crashed into him in a head-on collision near Missouri 210 highway.
The suspect, who also died in the crash, was identified as 29-year-old Ollie L. Coldiron, Gonzalez said.
Police had terminated the pursuit when Coldiron started driving into the oncoming lanes of traffic, Gonzalez said.
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