A driver driving the wrong way on the freeway killed all four occupants of the other vehicle. Police have not revealed why they think driver was driving the wrong way, however, they did note that this year
“…DPS arrested 52 people suspected of driving the wrong way… Ultimately, each of the 52 drivers arrested was found to be impaired”.
So, 100% of wrong-way drivers were impaired. Wrong way driving appears to be an impaired driver problem.
Victims of fatal I-17 wrong-way crash near Flagstaff identified …Christen Ebert, 26, Richard Chum, 30, Gary Sindhu, 29, and Kouang Saefong, 30, were traveling north along I-17 south of Munds Park at approximately 4 a.m. when their Nissan collided with a Jeep that was driving the wrong way, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety…
The driver of the Jeep, Carlos Quinones, 19, of Casa Grande, was injured and taken to Flagstaff Medical Center for treatment. The extent of his injuries has not been disclosed… DPS officials said the investigation into the crash was ongoing…
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Comment on the AZ Central article:
According to the article, those who are arrested driving the wrong way are ultimately found to be driving impared. They are not subject to publicity unless one or more people died in a crash. About 1000 wrong way drivers self correct and are not arrested. How many of those were driving under the influence? Where is the outrage? Some say, “Clinton lied and 4 Americans died!” What do we say about those who choose to drive under the influence and kill about 10,000 Americans a year? Do we care as much about the 10,000? I don’t see that we do. Therefore, we have to install countermeasures on our freeways in an attempt to reduce the death toll, because many drivers simply don’t care.
just say stuff without including non stop politics on either side!
we do not need to hear more politics from ANYONE interjected
into every single supposedly intelligent conversation!
and i am NOT political! i have no affliation, can’t many of you on the right and the left
just stop and make full statements without the political interjections??
maybe some of the younger drivers who are out there, who obviously might read statements
would listen more and hear more, if people were not non stop political stuff that they could not care less about! just say “this is outrageous and far more important than political fighting among
right and left on t.v. all day, we all need to join together to continue researching ways to
stop this with some new technology or something! MOST of these younger people now under 30 do not even remember NOR would they care anything about whatever the hell you said this clinton something or whatever! so wake up and stop interjecting all politics, it makes all older Americans, look angry and stupid and like we say things that they have no clue about (past politicians)! just make intelligent points about drunk driving or ideas about how to end this! NOT ONE person under 30 even knows what the hell you were even trying to say in that! MOST OF THEM do not even watch much politics or t.v. let alone specific angry political arguments, that distract from what you were upset about here, wrong way and drunk driving!
, stop talking about politics, it is not needed if you are right or left,
they often talk about this without constant angry political interjections!
all day long on t.v. around AZ they discuss new ways to FIGHT against
DUI and wrong way driving, we are all concerned, u can use political forums to
spew out your hatred for whatever political crap you are angry about!
this is about wrong way driving not your hatred in the political “arena”