Another wrong-way crash continues tragic local incidents. Here are 7 of them.

An early-morning wrong-way crash that killed one driver on Interstate 70 on Monday is the latest in a string of wrecks that involved motorists on the wrong side of the highway.

The accident near Taywood Road involved a sport utility vehicle and a semi. Other area wrong-way crashes include:

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Three survive I-75 crash: On Nov. 18, two Dayton motorists survived being hit by a minivan when Glenn Ellis Jr., 47, was going the wrong way in southbound lanes of I-75, authorities said. Anthony Revels, 59, and his passenger Michael Jackson, 53, were traveling south and Revels tried to swerve to avoid Ellis' oncoming minivan, and in doing so avoided a head-on collision, according to the report.

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2 killed on I-675: On Oct. 17, a 69-year-old Beavercreek man and an 18-year-old Miamisburg High School graduate died in a wrong-way crash on I-675 north of the Ohio 48 exit. Melvin Bonie Jr. and Kalip Grimm of Miami Twp. died after their vehicles collided in a three-vehicle accident that closed down lanes for hours, authorities said. Witnesses told police they saw a vehicle later identified as Bonie's go north off of Ohio 48 into the southbound lanes of I-675 before striking a car driven by Grimm shortly before the Wilmington Pike exit.

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Fiery downtown Dayton crash: The wrong-way driver in an April 30 fiery crash in Dayton, Andrew T. Brunsman, had alcohol and marijuana in his system at the time, according to the Montgomery County Coroner's Office. Brunsman, 30, of Beavercreek, plowed head-on into a semi hauling a tanker of gasoline. The collision and following explosions sent fireballs skyward and plumes of black smoke pouring over Dayton neighborhoods north of downtown. The tanker and its contents burned for more than an hour. Authorities shut down the entire highway. Pavement was damaged by the inferno at the accident site, causing delay to reopening some southbound lanes.

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Band members killed: In February 2016, five people, including several local musicians, were killed in a wrong-way crash blamed on alcohol on Interstate 75. The dead included three members of a Dayton rock band CounterFlux and a 61-year-old man who had been arrested for OVI just 48 hours before the crash. The young victims included four friends: Kyle Canter, 23, of New Carlisle; Earl Miller II, 27, of New Carlisle; Vashti Nicole Brown, 29, of Dayton; and Devin Bachmann, 26, of Huber Heights. James Pohlabeln, a 61-year-old retiree from Dayton, was the driver of the other car. He had been released from jail just 33 hours earlier in connection with a separate suspected drunken driving crash.

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Parents of four die: A Fairfield couple died April 8, 2016, when a wrong-way driver, who also died, struck their car on Interstate 75 in Evandale. Nazif Shteiwi, 61, and his wife, Halla Odeh Shteiwi, 55, were returning from a family function in Kentucky when hit by Kory Wilson, 30, of Springfield Twp. Wilson had a blood alcohol level 2.5 times the legal limit in Ohio, said Hamilton County Coroner's Office. Witnesses said Wilson was driving the correct way on I-75 seconds before the crash, then abruptly turned around. The Shteiwis, who immigrated from Jordan 40 years ago, had four children in college, the family said.-

Freeway suicide: On April 14, 2015, Chris Coleman passed through an emergency U-turn drive to the oncoming lanes of I-70 near the 48-mile marker in Clark County. He drove the wrong way on the shoulder before veering into the path of an oncoming tractor-trailer, according to witnesses. Coleman's Mazda exploded on impact and he died at the scene. The semi driver escaped without injury. After an investigation, the coroner ruled that Coleman committed suicide.

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