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WSP: Wrong-way driver arrested on I-5, lost and intoxicated

A suspected drunk driver was arrested Sunday morning after he drove the wrong way up Interstate 5 for several miles near Tumwater in Thurston County, the Washington State Patrol reported.

When troopers pulled the man over, he thought he was in Seattle – some 50 miles from his actual location, said Trooper Guy Gill.

“Amazingly (he) didn’t hit anyone,” Gill said in a tweet about the incident.

State troopers responded to the wrong-way driver after at least eight motorists called 911 at about 3:45 a.m. to report the man was driving north in the southbound lanes of I-5 in a 1996 Honda Civic.

An investigation found that the man got off the freeway at Trosper Road and then got back on the freeway heading in the same direction.

The driver, a 27-year-old Burlington man, eventually pulled over on the shoulder of the highway. He was arrested on suspicion of DUI, reckless driving and reckless endangerment.

The man appeared to be highly View full post on “drunk” News

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