ALAMANCE COUNTY — A wrong-way driver who was involved in a head-on collision that killed a young woman on Interstate 40 now faces murder and other criminal charges.

Rubicel Diaz Hernandez, 40, of Okeechobee, Florida, was taken into custody by the N.C. State Highway Patrol on Tuesday after being discharged from UNC Hospital, where he had been treated for his injuries since the Nov. 20 wreck.