1 killed in Bellingham crash, alcohol involved

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BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Alcohol is believed to be involved in a fatal head-on crash caused by a vehicle driving the wrong way on Interstate 5 in Bellingham.

State troopers report that 22-year-old Mateo S. Gaspar Alonzo of Bellingham died in the collision at 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

Alonzo was driving a 1998 Nissan Sentra north in the southbound lanes and collided head-on with a southbound 1999 Ford Ranger. The pickup driver, Jose A. Perez Lopez, was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham.

According to a Washington State Patrol report, alcohol was involved in the crash.