Results tagged “wrongway”

No matter that the Taconic State Parkway wrong-way crash claimed 8 lives when a minivan driver, apparently drunk and high, slammed into another SUV—driving the wrong way while possibly drunk is still happening. According to the Asbury Park Press, a driver was arrested—authorities believe he was intoxicated—after causing two wrong-way accidents on the Garden State Parkway at 5:20 p.m. yesterday. The driver "was going northbound in the southbound lanes" near Hazlet, NJ. "After striking one car, the wrong-way driver hit a second vehicle in the southbound express lanes before going through the guardrail and down into a ravine. The driver of the second car is pregnant and was being treated for a minor injury."

Famous gospel singer Rev. Timothy Wright of the Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Crown Heights was seriously injured in a car accident on I-80 in Pennsylvania Friday evening. His wife Betty did not survive the crash, after a man driving a Chevy Corsica the wrong way on the interstate struck their car as they were driving home from a conference in Detroit. The Wrights' grandson, 14-year-old D.J. Wright, was also fatally injured in the wreck and passed away in a Pennsylvania hospital. The driver of the Corsica, 44-year-old John Pick of Lewisburg, PA, was killed in the crash.