Wrong Way Accidents on Freeways Claim Lives
Recent wrong way collisions on freeways in the Sacramento area have had catastrophic consequences. Specifically, in May of this year, the driver of a pickup truck was traveling eastbound in the fast lane of westbound I-80 when he struck and the occupants of a Lexus as well as himself. Also, a month earlier in April, a 19-year-old traveling the wrong way on a freeway crashed into a pickup truck carrying three men, resulting in her death. She had a blood alcohol level of .20 percent, over twice the legal limit. In another alcohol-related wrong way collision earlier this year, the driver of a sedan drunkenly sped onto a freeway the wrong way and crashed into a car carrying three teenagers, killing all of them.