Wrong-Way Driver Causes Head On Collision: Around I-30 In Mesquite
Two people were hospitalized after a wrong-way crash early yesterday morning on Interstate 30 in Mesquite, TX. The accident happened shortly before 3:30 a.m. near Big Town Boulevard and shut down westbound lanes of I-30 for hours while authorities cleared the scene. Before the crash, an officer spotted the woman after she entered westbound I-30 near Second Avenue in downtown Dallas and tried to get her to pull over. Felicia Janis, 51, continued driving east in her black Ford F-150 and hit a Nissan Frontier head-on near the interchange with U.S. Highway 80. Her vehicle burst into flames.
A sheriff's deputy pulled the other driver from his pickup and tried to extinguish the fire. Janis, too, was pulled to safety from her burning pickup. Both were taken to Baylor University Medical Center with injuries that didn't appear to be life-threatening. Investigators are awaiting results from a blood test to determine whether alcohol played a role, said Kim Leach, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County Sheriff's Department.
Every day in Texas there’s auto accidents and they are all caused from different circumstances. An interesting statistic I found is that 61 percent of wrong way drivers who caused a car crash were under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Unfortunately, the Dallas and Fort Worth area has recently had many accidents from wrong-way drivers around the time the bars close. I am glad that everyone involved in this crash seems to be okay because typically head on collisions have fatal outcomes.
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