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Wrong-way driver kills three Bowling Green students on I-75

  • Just saw Hollis tweeting his sympathies about this. Two others in their car were critically injured. They were sorority sisters on their way to the Detroit airport for Spring Break. Wrong-way driver was also killed. Sad stuff.

    3 Bowling Green State students killed in Ohio crash with wrong-way driver | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

    A driver going the wrong way on a highway crashed head-on into another car early Friday, killing three Bowling Green State University sorority sisters and critically injuring two others.

    www.freep.com

    ARW Lasers20025

  • Very sad stuff. This has been all over the Toledo news this morning. It is very similar to incident about 2 years ago in Toledo where a drunk driver was going the wrong way on the highway and killed a whole family.

    Spartan2011

  • A couple of my buddies were heading back to Toledo from BGSU on 75 only a couple minutes after this accident. They said they were stuck on the highway for 2 hours and couldn't get through because of the accident. Really scary as it could have been them. RIP to those involved.

    Romanoff21

  • Kerney Thomas said...

    I've been driving at night before and passed a driver going the wrong way on the highway. Freaky stuff.

    It's unbelievable how often I hear reports of wrong-way drivers on interstates. How does that even happen? Has anyone here ever gone all the way up the wrong exit ramp without noticing and onto the freeway?

    Lawre167

  • Lawre167 said...

    It's unbelievable how often I hear reports of wrong-way drivers on interstates. How does that even happen? Has anyone here ever gone all the way up the wrong exit ramp without noticing and onto the freeway?

    Usually, it happens because the dumbass driving the wrong way is completely wasted.

    Starting to think that DOT's should consider installing those driveway spikes you see in parking lots that flatten your tires if you drive over them the wrong direction.

    Phil McCrackin ●

  • Had a neighbor who drove 15 miles the wrong way last winter, by some miracle didn't hurt anyone.

    Not alcohol, just dementia.

    WBill19542

  • Kerney Thomas said...

    I've been driving at night before and passed a driver going the wrong way on the highway. Freaky stuff.

    Spring break 2004 we were driving a van out to Denver for a ski trip and I was driving around 3AM and a car passed us on the highway in the lane right next to ours going the wrong way. It was one of the scariest things I've EVER experienced. I thought I was imagining things. The guy riding shotgun saw it too so I know it happened.

    Stils ●

  • Apparently it was a 69 year old woman who was the driver of the wrong way vehicle.

    Spartan2011

  • Lawre167 said...

    It's unbelievable how often I hear reports of wrong-way drivers on interstates. How does that even happen? Has anyone here ever gone all the way up the wrong exit ramp without noticing and onto the freeway?

    Alcohol.

    LoneWolfSparty

  • Lawre167 said...

    It's unbelievable how often I hear reports of wrong-way drivers on interstates. How does that even happen? Has anyone here ever gone all the way up the wrong exit ramp without noticing and onto the freeway?

    It's probably alcohol more often then not but I remember listening to a police scanner when I was in high school and someone with alzheimers managed to get behind the wheel of their siblings car and got on I-75 going the wrong way. I think they were able to stop him after a few miles but I remember how scared all the police sounded on the scanner. Luckily no one was injured or killed.

    animool

  • TheBlitzIsOn ●

  • Very sad. Amazing how the stars have to align for all of this to occur.

    ByTor20084

  • Hi everyone - I work at BGSU in Marketing and Communications - it's been a very rough day as you can imagine. Ten years ago six of our students were killed coming home from Spring Break in a crash in Kentucky and today is the 5th anniversary of the Bluffton Baseball bus crash.

    Since I know we have posters here from all over I can share a few details. The three victims were Rebekah Blakkolb from Aurora, Ohio, Christina Goyett of Bay City, Michigan and Sarah Hammond of Yellow Springs, Ohio. They were all members of Alpha Xi Delta.

    The two injured are in critical condition and are both from the Cleveland area.

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by SpartanGal on 3/2/2012 at 1:55 PM

    SpartanGal

  • SpartanGal said...

    Hi everyone - I work at BGSU in Marketing and Communications - it's been a very rough day as you can imagine. Ten years ago six of our students were killed coming home from Spring Break in a crash in Kentucky and today is the 5th anniversary of the Bluffton Baseball bus crash.

    Since I know we have posters here from all over I can share a few details. The three victims were Rebekah Blakkolb from Aurora, Ohio, Christina Goyett of Bay City, Michigan and Sarah Hammond of Yellow Springs, Ohio. They were all members of Alpha Xi Delta.

    The two injured are in critical condition and are both from the Cleveland area.

    Prayers said for the survivors and the families of all. Thanks for the update.

    LoneWolfSparty

  • Kerney Thomas said...

    There are some poorly planned highway on-ramps where it is very confusing, but you'd think people would figure it out and turn around before actually entering the freeway. I'd imagine 98% of wrong way drivers are drunk or senior citizens who probably shouldn't be on the road.

    61% of wrong way accidents are caused by alcohol and the % of drivers between the ages of 25-54 cause more accidents than those who are over 54.

    You sure seem to have a problem with the seniors.

    Vegas Vic

  • Phil McCrackin said...

    Usually, it happens because the dumbass driving the wrong way is completely wasted.

    Starting to think that DOT's should consider installing those driveway spikes you see in parking lots that flatten your tires if you drive over them the wrong direction.

    that is a great idea

    I bought some batteries, but they weren't included... so I had to buy them again. What do batteries run on?

    Steven Wright

  • animool said...

    but I remember listening to a police scanner when I was in high school

    Man, what a cool guy you were.

    Natron tSpartan ●

  • We as a nation consider driving as "right".

    No wonder we end up with so many incompetent drivers.

    Tree Rat

  • I know they used to say a lot of head ons occur when both drivers try to take evasive action turn into the same direction. If you ever see headlights coming toward you on the expressway, get the fock off the road asap.

    WBill19542

  • Vegas Vic said...

    61% of wrong way accidents are caused by alcohol and the % of drivers between the ages of 25-54 cause more accidents than those who are over 54.

    You sure seem to have a problem with the seniors.

    I just have a problem with you.

    "Tonight, we show the world what this program is made of!" -- Brian Ellerbe on Mar 4, 2000, the night of scUM's 51-point loss to MSU.

    m00kie40

  • Steven Wright said...

    that is a great idea

    Wrong-way driving risks persist - Toledo Blade

    Could spike strips similar to those used to keep motorists from exiting through the entrances of rental-car parking lots at airports have stopped a Perrysburg man from entering northbound I-75 the wrong way last month and colliding head-on with another car? Might they have prevented a head-on collision in September, also on northbound I-75, involving police chasing a wrong-way vehicle driven by a wanted man? Possibly, but not necessarily, several traffic-safety experts say. At the same time, such tire-deflation devices would prevent fire and rescue vehicles from entering the highway the

    www.toledoblade.com

    SpartanBen06

  • Kerney Thomas said...

    This accident was brought to you by a 69 year old woman. Face it, people lose certain capabilities as they age.

    69 is far from too old to know your are driving on the wrong side of a freeway unless you have some other issue like some form of dementia or are impaired. My 78 year old mother doesn't come close to having problems figuring out the north or southbound lanes of freeways.

    MSchott

  • MSchott said...

    69 is far from too old to know your are driving on the wrong side of a freeway unless you have some other issue like some form of dementia or are impaired. My 78 year old mother doesn't come close to having problems figuring out the north or southbound lanes of freeways.

    Your mother is luckier than most

    TPain151807 ●

  • My sister in law was pretty badly hurt when an old woman drove the wrong way down a freeway exit ramp. Fortunately no one was killed and my sister in law is fine now after some physical therapy. In a cruel irony, my sister in law and her friends in the car probably prevented a much worse accident by stopping it on the ramp going 25 MPH instead of the actual freeway at 70. I agree with other posters about age, and I think that after a certain age, drivers should have to take an annual physical exam to prove they are capable. This stuff happens way too often.

    Binford4State ●

  • A few things:

    1.) The exit/entrance at which she was first spotted is very confusing. The on-ramp for NB and the off-ramp for SB are at the same location. Horrible design.

    2.) I have no idea how someone can travel 10 miles in the wrong direction even if there's alcohol, dementia, etc.

    3.) This is at least the third such wrong-way crash in Toledo in the last few years. Someone mentioned the Maryland family of six (I think the other driver, a drunk kid, got something like 10 years). There was also a nurse who was going in for a 6AM shift just after Christmas a few years ago.

    4.) From a newspaper blog: A wrong-way driver may not realize what's going on, but instinctively, they stay to the right most of the time. Actually, that raises a question we'll be looking into with this one, because somehow this driver "successfully" navigated the I-75/I-475 junction near Perrysburg without keeping to the right and ending up going the wrong way on southbound I-475.

    5.) The car that was hit was the second of two cars in a caravan to the airport. The first car saw the wrong-way driver and probably saw the accident. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

    SpartanBoiler

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