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At 10:39am, a car crossed the median and collided with a semi-truck on the other side of 1-5, killing the driver of the car and leaving the truck driver with minor injuries. The truck came to rest perpendicular to the road blocking all northbound lanes.

Anteneh Minassie, 42, killed after his taxi collides with wrong-way car with alleged drunk driver Amy Marie St. John-Smith, 44, on I-5 in San Diego, California

Date:

Friday, April 18, 2014

Area:

San Diego, CA

The family of a taxi driver killed in a hit-and-run on a local freeway mourns his loss, as investigators work to determine what happened. The California Highway Patrol reported that cab driver, identified by family 42-year-old Anteneh Minassie, was on Interstate 5 heading south between Old Town Avenue and Washington Street when a wrong-way driver came toward him heading north just before 2:30 a.m. Minassie was thrown from his car, but CHP reported he died when he was run over on the interstate by multiple vehicles.

Karen Lee Greenstein, 58, killed and Richard Webster Scott, 32, injured after his vehicle that was traveling north on the southbound lanes of I-5 collides head-on with another vehicle near Medford, Oregon

Date:

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Area:

Medford-Klamath Falls, OR

Alcohol appears to have played a role in a fatal wrong-way two-car accident that occurred early Thursday on Interstate 5 near Medford. Oregon State Police is asking witnesses to come forward in connection with the crash, which took place around 3:15 a.m. in the southbound lanes of I-5 about five miles south of Medford. OSP, Jackson County Sheriff's Office, local fire and medical personnel, and ODOT were dispatched to milepost 24, said Lieutenant Gregg Hastings, an OSP spokesman.

Women arrested after wrong-way crash on I-5 in Seattle, Washington

Date:

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Area:

Seattle-Tacoma, WA

A Lake Stevens woman was booked into the King County Jail early Sunday after a wrong-way crash on I-5. It happened just before 12:30 a.m. on northbound I-5 at Northeast 145th Street. The Washington State Patrol stated that the 22-year-old driver of a Ford F-150 pickup truck was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes and hit a Ford Edge. One of the three people in the Edge was injured and taken to Harborview Medical Center. The driver of the F-150 and her passenger, a 24-year-old Mukilteo woman, were not hurt.