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Brandon Craig, 32, and Conrad Hebert, 31, killed and Kori Goldsby, 22, and Jason Trahan, 29, seriously injured after a 3-car crash on I-55 southbound near Manchac, Louisiana

Date: 
Monday, March 10, 2014
Area: 
New Orleans, LA
Interstate 55 southbound has reopened after being closed due to deadly accident. The southbound lanes were closed between Manchac and Ruddock. Louisiana State Police say that two people are dead after a wrong-way driver hit another vehicle head on. Police say 32-year-old Brandon Craig of Franklinton was driving a 2011 Kia north on the southbound lanes. The Kia struck a 2006 Chevrolet driven by 31-year-old Conrad Hebert of Tickfaw head on, police say.

Women arrested for DUI after crashing her car into a California Highway Patrol cruiser while traveling the wrong way on I-5 near San Diego, California

Date: 
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Area: 
San Diego, CA
A woman suspected of drunken driving was arrested early Monday after authorities said she drove the wrong way on two highways and collided with a California Highway Patrol car. Authorities were notified about 1:35 a.m. that a driver in a Mitsubishi Mirage was heading west in the eastbound lanes of state Route 52. The driver then exited onto Interstate 5 and headed south in the northbound lanes where she sideswiped the patrol car, the CHP said. The driver was stopped and taken into custody and booked into jail on DUI charges, the CHP said. No injuries were reported.

Jorge Rico, 22, killed, after his car traveling in the wrong direction crashes into a tractor-trailer on the I-635 east on-ramp from Highway 114 near Grapevine, Texas

Date: 
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Area: 
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
A man from North Richland Hills is dead after his car collided with a tractor-trailer around 4:04 a.m. on the on-ramp to the eastbound lanes of I-635E from Highway 114. Police say the man was traveling the wrong way when his Honda collided head-on with the semi. The driver has been identified as 22-year-old Jorge Rico. Rico’s time of death is listed on the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s website as 4:15 a.m., with a cause of death being multiple blunt force injuries. Rico was the only person injured in the crash, which shut down the I-635E on-ramp for two hours.

51-year-old man killed and 48 year-old man critically injured after a pickup going the wrong way on Rand Road, causes a multi-vehicle crash in Arlington Heights, Illinois

Date: 
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Area: 
Chicago, IL

A wrong-way driver was killed in a five-vehicle crash in northwest suburban Arlington Heights Monday afternoon. The crash happened about 12:15 p.m., when a 51-year-old man from Palatine was driving northwest in the southeast-bound lanes of Rand Road between Thomas and Dryden avenues, according to a statement from Arlington Heights police. 

Robert Henry Baker, 66, killed, and Alicia G. Breckheimer, 31, critically injured after a head-on crash on I-82 near Hermiston, Oregon

Date: 
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Area: 
Yakima-Pasco-Richland-Kennewick, WA

Oregon State Police are investigating a fatal crash on Interstate 82 near Hermiston early Friday involving a wrong-way driver. About 1:30 a.m., a Hermiston woman, later identified as Alicia G. Breckheimer 31, was headed west in her 2005 Cadillac CTS in the eastbound lanes of I-82 smashed nearly head-on into a 2006 Chrysler 300 driven by a 66-year old man from Ione. The Cadillac ended up in the center median and the Chrysler stopped on the eastbound shoulder. The man, later identified as Robert Henry Baker, was pronounced deceased at the scene.

25-year-old man killed, after his pickup, going the wrong way on I-10, collides with a tractor-trailer near Houston, Texas

Date: 
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Area: 
Houston, TX
A man is dead after driving the wrong way and crashing into an 18-wheeler. According to the Houston Police Department, a man was driving a white Chevy Silverado pickup truck around 10:00 p.m. Friday. The man somehow got on the westbound feeder lanes of I-10 going eastbound, the wrong direction The driver then slammed head-on into an 18-wheeler going westbound. The 25-year-old driver of the pickup truck was trapped in the truck and had to be extricated once police arrived. He was taken to Hermann Memorial Hospital by Lifeflight in critical condition, where he later died.

20-year-old woman and 26-year-old man arrested on multiple charges after a police pursuit leads to a single car crash on the Bangerter Highway near Draper, Utah

Date: 
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Area: 
Salt Lake City, UT
A man and woman were behind bars after a high-speed police chase ended with a crash in southwest Salt Lake County early Thursday morning. West Jordan police Sgt. Dan Roberts said the chase began at 7800 S. Redwood Road, where police say the woman driver blew through a red light. The ensuing pursuit wound through residential areas and eventually onto Bangerter Highway, where the car ended up going the wrong way.

6-year-old boy killed, 10-year-old boy, Ericka M. Gorremans, 32, Gage W. Musgrave, 84, seriously injured, taken to hospital, after a 3-car wrong-way crash on northbound I-5 near Vancouver in Clark County.

Date: 
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Area: 
Portland, OR

6-year-old boy died and three other people were hospitalized Friday following a wrong-way car crash on Interstate 5 just north of Vancouver. The accident happened just before 2 p.m. when an 84-year-old Vancouver man driving south in the northbound portion of I-5 crashed head-on into a car driven by a La Center woman who had two children in her vehicle. Gage W. Musgrave was driving a white 2005 Toyota Avalon, according to the Washington State Patrol accident report, when he collided with a 2008 

Wendy Ann Knight-Goboly, 57, Dick Allen Versendaal, 76, killed, 3-year-old seriously injured, after an SUV driving in the wrong direction collides head-on with a pickup in Bruce Township, Michigan

Date: 
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Area: 
Detroit, MI
A man from Byron Center was killed in a three-vehicle crash that happened Thursday afternoon on the east side of the state. Dick Allen Versendaal, 76, was killed when his SUV hit a pickup truck around 3:30 p.m. on Van Dyke Avenue in Bruce Township, which is about 40 miles north of Detroit. Witnesses said Versendaal was driving the wrong way on the street when hit the pickup head-on, according to Michigan State Police.

One person killed, two seriously injured after a wrong-way driver collides with another car on eastbound State Route 94 in San Diego, California

Date: 
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Area: 
San Diego, CA
A person was killed early Sunday during a wrong-way crash involving two vehicles on state Route 94 in central San Diego. The crash occurred at about 2:16 a.m. on eastbound SR-94 east of Federal Boulevard. According to the California Highway Patrol, a suspected drunken driver was behind the wheel of a black BMW that entered the wrong side of the freeway and slammed into a black Nissan Sentra, killing the other driver instantly. The BMW's driver and passenger were both transported to Scripps Mercy Hospital. The extent of their injuries and their conditions were unknown.