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Northbound Interstate 25 reopened in Santa Fe early Thursday following a three-vehicle collision that officials said was caused when a vehicle went the wrong way. According to officials, the accident occurred Wednesday evening near St. Francis Road. 

A wrong-way driver collided with a Washington State Patrol cruiser on U.S. 195 on Wednesday afternoon. The trooper was attempting to stop the wrong-way driver near Excelsior Road, 3 miles south of Spokane shortly after 2 p.m. The trooper wasn’t injured, but an ambulance was ordered as a precaution to evaluate the other driver, whom the release described as “elderly.” The northbound lanes were partially blocked as investigators worked at the scene, but the roadway is now clear.

Three people died after a car traveling in the wrong direction on U.S. 81 hit another vehicle head-on, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. About 8:15 p.m. Friday, a car with one driver and one passenger was headed north in the southbound lane of the highway about a half mile south of Bison. It struck the car of Antonio Medina Jr., 23, of Enid, who was traveling northbound. Medina, who was wearing a seat belt, died at the scene, troopers said.

A Spokane woman who drove the wrong way on Interstate 90 early Sunday caused an accident that sent her and two others to the hospital. Ashley R. Daily, 30, was driving a 2000 Honda Accord westbound in the eastbound lanes between Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene about 12:26 a.m., the Idaho State Police said. Daily hit head-on a 2013 Hyundai Genesis driven by Victor J. DeLeon, 38, of Hayden. Neither one was wearing a seat belt, and both were taken to Kootenai Health for treatment, police said.