4 injured, 6 cars hit as wrong-way driver triggers mayhem on I-5

EVERETT, Wash. – Six cars crashed and four people were injured early Saturday when a suspected drunk driver pulled a U-turn and headed the wrong way up Interstate 5 near Everett, officials said.

State troopers were called to the scene, on I-5 near Highway 526, at about 2:10 a.m. after receiving a report of a wrong-way driver and multiple collisions.

When troopers arrived, they determined that the chain reaction was triggered by the driver of a 1997 Plymouth Breeze.

The Plymouth originally was headed south on I-5 when the driver exited at the Silver Lake rest area, made a U-turn, then headed north in the southbound lanes, the State Patrol said.

The car made it a mile and a half heading in the wrong direction up I-5, sideswiping two other cars that were heading south.

After that, traffic stalled because of the crashes, and one of the cars that was sideswiped was hit from behind by another car. Then another car smashed into that View full post on “drunk” News