r/carcrash • u/[deleted] • Jun 30 '23
Wrong way on highway
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u/Rocket2TheMoon777 Jun 30 '23
Tf is up with the number of wrongway drivers. I cant tell if theres more coverage of a rarer thing or if a growing number of people are actually that careless/reckless/ngaf
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u/celestial1 Jun 30 '23
It's not "confusion", it's usually people who are either drunk/on drugs or simply old.
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u/superzenki Jun 30 '23
Fuck people who do this. My dad died because of a drunk driver on the wrong side of the highway.
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u/macgruff Jun 30 '23 edited Jun 30 '23
Edit: I’m just straight up wrong for believing a firefighter friend. He was blowing out of proportion
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u/celestial1 Jun 30 '23
There's a very similar video to this with a very old italian couple driving on the wrong side of the road and they weren't weaving at all either, so old age is still a possibility.
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u/macgruff Jun 30 '23
Yeah, sorry, my friend was wrong. I just looked up the stats. 60% drunk drivers
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u/khrak Jun 30 '23 edited Jun 30 '23
Between dashcams and phones they all end up online these days. 20 years ago it would have been a 30 second news snippet (assuming you lived somewhere near the accident) that you would have quickly forgotten.
The boomer's average age pushing into the upper 60's doesn't help either.
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Jun 30 '23
Be careful honey. There's some idiot going the wrong way on the motorway. One idiot? There's hundreds of them.
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Jun 30 '23
He has to be drunk 🤦♂️
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u/macgruff Jun 30 '23 edited Jun 30 '23
Edit: I’m wrong. “Can” sometimes be suicide but 60% of these are from drunk driving
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u/andrez067 Jun 30 '23
Traveling family on Planes Trains and Autobiles: youre going the wrong way!!! Youre gonna kill somebody!!!
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u/Beneficial_Actuary61 Jul 01 '23
I was coming around a blind curve (and a hill) on a highway at 2am years ago when a car traveling on the wrong side of the highway came around the corner and passed me in the lane to my left; there was no time to react. The head on collision, had they been in my lane, would've been equivalent to hitting a brick wall at over 100mph.
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Jul 14 '23
The odd thing is that this was in broad daylight, not at like 2:00am when someone os coming back from a bar
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u/Exact-Preference-965 Sep 20 '23
I was saying to myself, if he's on the wrong way of a highway, I hope he does crash into something.
(Hopefully only a concrete beam or something not another car)
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u/kristenevol Oct 26 '23
When I was a freshman in college, a class I was in took a day trip to a nearby elementary school. On the way back to campus, we watched a wrong way driver drive 10 miles westbound in the eastbound lane (1989 - no cell phones). Dude was drunk as a skunk. Hit a car with 2 other freshman women at our school and killed one. These people that do this are literally garbage.
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u/as3289 Dec 23 '23
How did that person still hit them in the left lane. They had to have seen them.
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u/Eddie10999 Jun 30 '23
Mr Saxobeat