A driver’s blood-alcohol content was more than four times the legal limit at the time of a Dec. 23 crash that left four people dead, the Ohio Highway Patrol said Friday.

Thepatrol stated it recently received the confirmation from the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office that the quadruple fatal on Interstate 75 was alcohol related. The driver at fault, 40-year-old Joshua Nkansah, of Fairfield, was found to have a blood-alcohol content of .346.

Authorities said Nkansah began driving his 1997 Dodge minivan the wrong-way on I-75, near milepost 35, in Warren County. He struck a 2000 Chrysler minivan head-on, killing Michelle and Scott Barhorst of Madisonville, Tenn.

Nkansah and his son, David, 7, were also killed as a result of the crash.

Four children in the Barhorst vehicle and one additional child in the Nkansah vehicle suffered serious injuries, but survived.

In 2012, there were 12,168 OVI-related crashes on Ohio roadways - a 14 percent decrease from 2011 when there were 14,220, according to the patrol.