FRIDLEY (WJON News) -- Both drivers were killed in a wrong-way head-on collision in the Twin Cities.

The Minnesota State Patrol says the crash happened just before 10:00 p.m. Monday in Fridley.

Troopers say a 46-year-old Brooklyn Center man took the ramp from University to Eastbound 694 and began going westbound in the eastbound lanes.  His vehicle crashed head-on with a car being driven by a 78-year-old woman from Mounds View.

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The names of the two people killed have not been released.

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