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Gospel singer Wright hurt in Pa. car accident

Cops: Singer’s wife killed, grandson injured; wrong-way driver caused crash

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updated 5:53 p.m. ET July 5, 2008

LOGANTON, Pa. - Gospel singer the Rev. Timothy Wright was critically injured in a crash that killed his wife and a wrong-way driver, police in central Pennsylvania said Saturday.

A hospital spokesman said Wright was injured Friday night along with his 14-year-old grandson, D.J. Wright.

State police said 58-year-old Betty Wright of Roosevelt, N.Y., died in the three-vehicle crash on Interstate 80. The driver of the car that was going the wrong way also died.

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Timothy Wright's latest album, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus," came out last year.

Geisinger Medical Center said a passenger in the third vehicle was in fair condition.

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