Washington DUI Drivers arrested after traveling wrong way down road

Washington DUI Drivers arrested after traveling wrong way down road

A suspected drunk driver was arrested Sunday morning after he drove the wrong way up Interstate 5 for several miles near Tumwater in Thurston County, the Washington State Patrol reported.
When troopers pulled the man over, he thought he was in Seattle - some 50 miles from his actual location, said Trooper Guy Gill.
"Amazingly (he) didn't hit anyone," Gill said in a tweet about the incident.
State troopers responded to the wrong-way driver after at least eight motorists called 911 at about 3:45 a.m. to report the man was driving north in the southbound lanes of I-5 in a 1996 Honda Civic.
An investigation found that the man got off the freeway at Trosper Road and then got back on the freeway heading in the same direction.
The driver, a 27-year-old Burlington man, eventually pulled over on the shoulder of the highway. He was arrested on suspicion of DUI, reckless driving and reckless endangerment.
The man appeared to be highly intoxicated, but neither he nor his passenger had any injuries.
The arrest marked the latest in a growing series of wrong-way driving incidents in the Puget Sound area:

• A woman was killed instantly Feb. 22 at about 4 a.m. when she was hit by a compost truck at freeway speeds while heading the wrong way on Highway 520 with her lights turned off. Alcohol was believed to be a factor.

• Four people were injured Feb. 18 when a driver heading the wrong way up Martin Luther King Jr. Way struck two other vehicles.

• Two people were injured Jan. 20 when a wrong-way driver slammed head-on into another car on Interstate 405 at about 1:30 a.m. near Bothell.

• Six people were injured Jan. 15 when a suspected drunk driver heading the wrong way up Interstate 5 crashed head-on into another vehicle near Tukwila.

• A 60-year-old woman was arrested Jan. 11 after troopers say she mixed alcohol and prescription drugs and drove the wrong way down I-5, at times topping 100 miles an hour.

• An 86-year-old man drove more than two miles in the wrong direction down Highway 101 and Interstate 5 through Olympia and Tumwater on Christmas Day, causing at least one crash

 

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