A man has been arrested months after an alleged drunken wrong-way crash on the Palmetto Expressway in Miami-Dade left his passenger dead and another driver seriously injured, authorities said.

Ricardo Oreste Rivas-Figueredo, 41, was arrested Thursday on charges including DUI manslaughter, vehicular homicide in a reckless manner, DUI causing serious bodily injury, reckless driving causing serious bodily injury, and reckless driving with damage to property or person, an arrest report said. Miami-Dade Corrections

The crash happened around 1 a.m. on July 14 in the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway near Okeechobee Road.

According to the report, Rivas-Figueredo was driving a white Mercedes SUV northbound in the southbound lanes when he collided head-on with a white Dodge SUV.

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