Quentin Williams, a Connecticut state representative was k#lledovernight in a wrong-way highway cr@sh after having attended the governor’s inaugural ball and his own swearing-in ceremony for a third term.
State Police said he was k#lled when a wrong-way driver h#t him head-on early Thursday. Both drivers d#ed in the process.
Quentin Williams, a Democrat from Middletown known as “Q,” d#ed in the crash on Route 9 in Cromwell. The car driven by Williams, 39, was “fully engulfed in fl@mes” after the cr@sh, according to the police.
Williams, the new co-chair of the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee, was the first African American to represent Middletown in the General Assembly, according to a biography on his legislative web page.