Victim ID'd, Details In Fatal Wrong-Way Crash On South Jersey Highway

Details were revealed in a fatal wrong-way crash shut down part of a N.J. highway on Thursday that's notorious for deadly crashes, police said.

The victim was identified as Peter Koslowsky, 33, of Erma, who was driving the wrong way down Route 55 early Thursday when he crashed. Tributes poured in for Koslowsky on social media who was an alumnus of Lower Cape May Regional High School:

Route 55 in Franklin Township in South Jersey was partially shut down after one person died in the 2:47 a.m. crash on Thursday, police said.

State police said a 2014 Ford, driven by Koslowsky, was heading southbound in the northbound lanes when it collided with a dump truck, causing both vehicles to catch fire.

The dump truck overturned, spilling fuel and its load of what appeared to be sand across the highway. Both vehicles were engulfed in flames.

The State Police said the driver of the dump truck survived with minor injuries. Koslowsky died soon after the crash.

Koslowsky was a South Jersey resident who didn't post much on social media, but when he did, he usually had a poignant quote to share.

Route 55 is notoriously dangerous road, and these fatal accidents also have happened in 2016:

• Cara McCollum, a 24-year-old news anchor for SNJ Today and a former Miss N.J., died earlier this year after her car ran off northbound Route 55 and hit several trees in Pittsgrove, said New Jersey State Police.
• A woman died in January in Gloucester County in a crash on Route 55 northbound at mile marker 47, police said.
• A prisoner transport van crashed into a truck on Route 55 in January, killing one inmate and injuring three other people, New Jersey State Police said.
• A 31-year-old man was killed in April when his pickup truck flipped on Route 55, police said

We'll have more information as it comes in.

Photos courtesy of ABC6 and Koslowsky family