LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A University of Louisville nursing student's life was cut short on the Gene Snyder Freeway.

The deadly crash happened on Sunday, November 3rd, just before 2am.

Police said a man was driving the wrong-way down the highway when he crashed into another car. Police believe he went onto I-265 at Dixie Highway and traveled northbound in the southbound lanes.

The man crashed into a car who was going southbound in the proper lanes. Both people died at the scene of the crash.

Just five minutes away from climbing into bed, Charles Austin's, only daughter Jayniyah Pullen was killed.

"Just why? Just grief right now, grief," Charles Austin, Pullen's father said. "She was going to go to her granny's house, which was closer, but she wanted to come home."

Her car was mangled and nearly unrecognizable.

"People make mistakes. I can't point a finger at anyone and say 'hey, you're wrong.' I am wrong. Everybody is wrong. We are all sinners in life," Austin said. "So, yes, I am angry, but I want to have justice, but what justice can be done when two lives were taken?"

Authorities have not released the other driver's name.

"He lost his life too, but yet he did take our beautiful daughter. He did take our love," Austin said.

Pullen was 20-years-old and an aspiring nurse.

"She always brought good energy no matter what," David McClellan, her uncle, said.

"She had a beautiful smile, her laughs, she brought happiness everywhere she came. It was in her words," her friends and boyfriend said.

She would've been 21 in January.

"She was just a beautiful child full of life. She will be missed," Austin said.

It's unknown at this time if the wrong-way driver was impaired. LMPD's Traffic Unit is investigating the crash. 

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