STRATFORD, Conn. -- A driver going the wrong way on Connecticut's Merritt Parkway crashed head-on into a minivan early Thursday, killing all four people in the vehicles and closing one side of the highway for nearly seven hours, state police said.

State police said all three people in the minivan were killed. They've been identified as Steven P. Rowland, Thomas Lucian Vitale and Olga Vitale.

Four people have died after a wrong-way head-on crash and fire that closed part of the Merritt Parkway in Stratford for nearly seven hours on Thursday morning. State troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash around 1:43 a.