QUENTIN WILLIAMS, A US LAWMAKER, WAS REPORTEDLY KILLLED BY A CARELESS DRIVER HOURS AFTER HIS INAUGURATION.

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

According to State Police, he was killed when a wrong-way driver hit him head-on early Thursday. In the process, both drivers d#ed. Quentin Williams, a Middletown Democrat known as “Q,” was killed in the crash on Route 9 in Cromwell.

According to police, the car driven by Williams, 39, was “fully engulfed in flames” after the crash.

According to his legislative web page, 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.