There seems to be quite a few of these types of incidents/accidents in my area lately. The latest one I have a link to. There were 4 guys in one car and none of them seemed to know they were going the wrong way on the interstate! All of them must have be very drunk.
Of the other incidents I have heard of all of the drivers were either on drugs or booze!
http://www.suntimes.com/10463776-417/police-alcohol-a-factor-in-wrong-way-i-80-wre...
Happened in OK this weekend too, killed the driver (the one driving the wrong way) and a young storm chaser.
I had a head on collision with a wrong way driver in the middle of a bridge several years ago. Kind of exciting to say the least. Lucky for me, I was driving a 1970 Ford service truck and the lady was driving a small Buick. Not a pretty sight. Lucky she had a seat belt on. Other than glass cuts on her face, from the truck hood shattering her windshield, we both walked away.
Watch out for the crazies and the lost. They're kind of dangerous.
z31maniac wrote:Happened in OK this weekend too, killed the driver (the one driving the wrong way) and a young storm chaser.
The young guy was from Minnesota, it was in the news here today. The picture of his car after the crash was pretty awful.
I understand one way city streets. I've lived on plenty, seen my fair share of wrong-ways (you could count 5-15 in the course of a few peak hours at the corner where my old employer was situated). Half the time it's from a blatant lack of visible signage, and the other half is from folks from out of the area - usually both at the same time.
But have you ever encountered an interstate interchange where it was easy to confuse the entrance to the right direction of travel with the exit from the wrong one?
yep... and those " you're going the wrong way" signs sometimes just don't get the job done
I remember driving home from a party late one night. I was under 21 and sober, alone, driving along with almost no other traffic except a car I met going the opposite way. I was a mile or two past him before it occurred to me I was on a 4-lane divided highway (not an interstate, though) and he was heading north in the southbound left lane... gave me the delayed-reaction shakes.
I drive that stretch all the time. As I get older I don't like driving any of the roads on Friday or saturday night late in the Chicago area. I called the state police on a weaving drier once and they caught up with him and pulled him over. It was scary.
That was actually just on the news. The one guy that survived said that the speedometer was buried at 120. I don't believe that because both cars would have been obliterated.
I drive past the site of this one every time I go to work: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/nyregion/27crash.html
There's all kinds of stupid out there; it's just more densely packed in some places.
There was one on the 401 east of Toronto recently - Double Fatal - both drivers.
