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Coroner: Wrong-way driver in fatal Kentucky crash was drunk

The driver in a Kentucky wrong-way crash was at fault and had a blood-alcohol content of .306. A Michigan family was killed in this crash.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky official says the wrong-way driver who killed a vacationing Michigan family on Interstate 75 had a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit.

Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn says in a statement that 41-year-old Joey Bailey of Georgetown had a .306 blood-alcohol content and was at fault in the crash that killed six people. The legal limit in Kentucky is .08.

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Credit: The City of Dearborn Michigan, Facebook

The Abbas family was killed in wrong-way crash. They were coming home to Michigan from a vacation in Florida.

Lexington police have said a pickup truck going southbound the northbound lanes struck a sport utility vehicle at 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 6 and the SUV caught fire.

The crash killed five members of the Abbas family of Northville, Michigan: 42-year-old Issam, 38-year-old Rima, 14-year-old Ali, 13-year-old Isabella and 7-year-old Giselle. Bailey also died.