Sad: U.S-Lawmaker, Quentin Williams, reportedly killed by a reckless driver hours after his swearing-in

Quentin Williams, a Connecticut state representative was killed overnight in a wrong-way highway crash after having attended the governor’s inaugural ball and his own swearing-in ceremony for a third term.

State Police said he was killed when a wrong-way driver hit him head-on early Thursday. Both drivers died in the process.

Quentin Williams, a Democrat from Middletown known as “Q,” died in the crash on Route 9 in Cromwell. The car driven by Williams, 39, was “fully engulfed in flames” after the crash, according to the police.

Williams, the new co-chair of the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee, was the first African American to represent Middletown in the General Assembly, according to a biography on his legislative web page.