Part 19 of 20 - Wrong-way Interstate Collisions, “I wonder if the State is doing anything to help avoid wrong-way collisions?”
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Nevada – July 2009 – This on occurred on Pyramid Highway just north of Queen Way heading north in the southbound lanes. The wrong-way driver sideswiped a van and then collided head-on with a car. The accident occurred at 6:50 a.m. The wrong-way driver was reported as “sleepy”. The crash caused injuries but no one was killed.
Charlotte, North Carolina – July 2009 - I-85 is the scene of this chase by state troopers attempting to stop a DUI driver for over 20-miles in a 2008 Honda. The driver was spotted at around 1:30 a.m. in Charlotte’s University City area.
Santa Rosa, California – July 2009 – Highway 101, the wrong-way driver was arrested on suspicion of OWI. The time was around 5:40 p.m. The driver made two attempts to make a u-turn and each time to reenter the highway the wrong way. The driver was 46-years-old.
Denver, Colorado – July 2009 – A 21-year-old driver was killed after driving the wrong-way on I-225 and colliding with a skyRide bus. The collision occurred at 1:48 a.m. near Aurora. The cause of this wrong-way is not obvious. The force of the impact with the bus drove the Taurus backward about 250 feet into the median.
Police Sgt. Kevin Rollins said that moments before the collision, a Colorado Department of Transportation employee spotted Gordon standing outside her Ford Taurus in the median of I-225, just south of East Yale Avenue. The employee, who was in a marked CDOT vehicle, turned on his flashing lights and was driving up to assist her when Gordon jumped back into her car and drove north in the southbound lanes of I-225.
Rollins said Gordon accelerated quickly and had driven about 500 feet when she crashed into the bus.