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Part 17 of 20 - Wrong-way Interstate Collisions, ?This is a broad median, should I take extra time to get my bearings??

By Steve Lombardi

South Dallas, Texas – July 2009 - Three people died from a head-on crash when a wrong-way driver traveled eastbound in the westbound lanes of I-20 in the Red Bird area of Dallas. Alcohol was found in the wrong-way driver's car.

Las Vegas, Nevada – A wrong-way driver allegedly high on prescription drugs came the wrong-way towards a police officer who was in the process of taking a drunk driver to jail. The drug was Lortab.

Vigil admitted to taking the powerful narcotic Lortab before driving. He then failed a series of sobriety tests.

"While processing him in the medical center in Las Vegas, a baggie fell out of his sock containing a baggie of blue pills which turned out to be Xanax," State Police Spokesman Lt. Eric Garcia said Thursday.

The pills weren't in a prescription bottle and Vigil couldn't show cops prescriptions for either medication, so they added possession charges to his DWI.

Even after that, Vigil still can't grasp what just happened.

He asked in the dashcam video, "What did I do wrong?"

New York, New York – July 2009 – Taconic State Parkway – Eight people died - Driving 70-mph two-miles the wrong-way on a highway she was very familiar with what caused this 36-year-old mother with her children in the van to do the unthinkable? In her van was her 2-year-old daughter, 5-year-old son and three nieces. All but one died in the head-on crash. It was a Sunday and she was driving from a campground. Her son was the only one to survive the crash. In the other head-on car, an SUV, three men died. This is an unbelievably busy interstate. So why did she continue going the wrong way? There is a video at the first link. And a video of the timeline involved just previous to the crash; the cause remains a mystery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGRU5wYGKbE

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Steve Lombardi

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).