The State Highway Patrol has identified the driver killed in the fatal accident on I-85 Wednesday afternoon as 76-year-old Julius Edward Ellen, of Virginia.

Troopers say law enforcement was dispatched to a two-vehicle collision just before one o’clock. Both vehicles were traveling North on I-85 in the right lane when traffic slowed, reportedly due to a guardrail repair crew working just ahead of the crash which had closed the left lane to perform maintenance work.

The 2011 GMC Terrain driven by Ellen struck the rear end of a 1987 Chevrolet Utility truck, driven by 57-year-old Paul May, of South Carolina.

According to troopers, May was transported to Duke University Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.