Two dead in wrong-way crash that closed Pike west bound at Ludlow

LUDLOW, Mass. (WWLP) -

We now the know names of two people who died in a head-on collision on the Massachusetts Turnpike last night.

84-year-old Clarence Lux of New Britain Connecticut was driving east on the westbound side of the Turnpike at mile marker 54 in Ludlow.

Lux collided head on with a car that was being driven by 28-year-old Robert Magee from West Bridgewater.

The crash occurred at mile marker 54 in Ludlow at 8:40 PM Friday.

State Police spokesman Trooper Kenneth Gaetz told 22News, "There are two fatalities.  It's real bad.  Four vehicles are involved."

A News Release from State Police Media Relations said, in part, "Preliminary investigation by troopers on scene indicates that one of the four vehicles was traveling eastbound on the westbound side of the Turnpike."

Both drivers involved in that head-on collision died at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, according to State Police Media Relations.

State police say that Lux had made a U-turn minutes before colliding with Magee's car. They say Lux had a medical condition that may have contributed to the crash, though they did not specify what that condition was, citing medical privacy laws.

Magee was a combat veteran and a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, he was driving to reservist training at Westover Air Reserve Base at the time of the crash.