Man goes wrong way on highway for 11 miles...

[Zim Hosein]

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - A Frenchman drove up a motorway in the wrong direction for 11 miles, crashing into five other vehicles and killing one person and injuring three others including two children, police said.

The 66-year-old man continued driving after his first two collisions Sunday in the hope of finding an exit off the A35 in eastern France, a police spokesman in the city of Strasbourg said.

No one was injured in the first collision with two vehicles, but one person was seriously hurt in a second accident with two other vehicles.

The retired motorist, driving with his wife, only came to a halt when he collided head-on with another car, killing an adult and seriously injuring two children aboard. Police said the victims were among a family of immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

Police said alcohol tests on the driver proved negative and he could not explain why he had turned the wrong way onto the motorway. He was in shock but he and his wife were otherwise unhurt.

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Man goes wrong way on highway for 11 miles :Q

 

[Baked]

Great, another crazy old driver.

 

[LeiZaK]

Old people and driving don't mix.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Baked
Great, another crazy old driver.

66 isn't that old in terms of driving....unless he just went senile early.

 

[chuckywang]

When he realized he was driving the wrong way, why didn't he just, oh I dunno, GET OFF THE FVCKING ROAD!!!!!!!!!?

 

[mcvickj]

How do you go 11 miles without realizing you are driving the wrong way?

 

[imported_Pablo]

66 isn't that old really

 

[MisterJackson]

This happened on I-385 here in Greenville this morning. Not for 11 miles though

 

[NathanBWF]

This is a perfect reason why I'm never going to allow myself to get old.

 

[SaltBoy]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
This happened on I-385 here in Greenville this morning. Not for 11 miles though

Soooo, how many people did YOU hurt?

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
This is a perfect reason why I'm never going to allow myself to get old.

You gonna jump out to an oncoming train?

 

[iamwiz82]

A couple of years ago on I-96 near Brighton, MI a woman drove the wrong way for a few miles and was reported to the police. They went looking but never found anything. A few days later (IIRC) they found her, dead, in her car. It had gone off of a bridge and into a ravine.

 

[Spike]

The strange part is it said he knew he was going the wrong way and was looking for an exit to get off the freeway. I would think common sense would say that after one accident the best course would be to pull over and put on the emergency lights but maybe they don't have shoulders in France...

-spike

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
A couple of years ago on I-96 near Brighton, MI a woman drove the wrong way for a few miles and was reported to the police. They went looking but never found anything. A few days later (IIRC) they found her, dead, in her car. It had gone off of a bridge and into a ravine.

:Q

 

[NathanBWF]

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
This is a perfect reason why I'm never going to allow myself to get old.

You gonna jump out to an oncoming train?

Nope. Just gonna drive down the wrong side of the tracks until I hit one head on.

 

[BillGates]

PUT HIM TO SLEEP!

 

[MisterJackson]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
This happened on I-385 here in Greenville this morning. Not for 11 miles though

Soooo, how many people did YOU hurt?

LOL, it wasn't me. Though I have been passenger in a car that did the same thing on a busy two lane road here. Luckily it was 2 am so there wasn't but one car we passed before we realized they weren't on the wrong side, we were!

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: Pablo
66 isn't that old really

keep telling yourself that.

 

[SithSolo1]

Ok, I just want to know what he was driving that was able to keep going after 4 collisions and then a 5th head-on while keeping its occupants relatively unharmed. Must have been an armored car or something.

 

[Accipiter22]

sorry, it was dark out

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
Ok, I just want to know what he was driving that was able to keep going after 4 collisions and then a 5th head-on while keeping its occupants relatively unharmed. Must have been an armored car or something.

It was in France, they have a lot of tiny cars

 

[Steve]

Never mind

 

[Mrfrog840]

and they will slap him on the hand and let him go free

 

[NoToRiOuS1]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Baked
Great, another crazy old driver.

66 isn't that old in terms of driving....unless he just went senile early.

from the looks of it...i think he did

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: mcvickj
How do you go 11 miles without realizing you are driving the wrong way?

especially with his wife in the car?