Novato, CA : Two drivers die in wrong-way crash on Highway 101 in Novato on Sunday, November 30, 2014

Two people died early Sunday after a drunken, wrong-way driver caused a head-on crash on Highway 101 in Novato, authorities said. Drivers began calling the California Highway Patrol about a driver traveling north in the southbound lanes of Highway 101 at 12:02 a.m. As CHP officers tried to catch up to the driver, citizens reported that two vehicles had collided head-on in the fast, southbound lane near the Redwood Sanitary Landfill overcrossing, said CHP Officer Andrew Barclay. Officers arrived and determined that an intoxicated man behind the wheel of a 1995 Toyota Camry station wagon was traveling in the wrong direction when he crashed into a 2013 Nissan Sentra with a male driver and a female passenger, the CHP said. Both cars were traveling at freeway speeds at the time of the crash. The Toyota came to rest in the center divide. The Nissan overturned and began traveling toward the right shoulder when it was hit by a Dodge Ram pickup, Barclay said. The Nissan came to rest on its roof and ended up in a ditch on the right shoulder. The drivers of the Toyota and Nissan died at the scene. The woman riding in the Nissan suffered moderate to major injuries and was taken to a hospital. The driver of the pickup truck wasn’t injured. The names of the people involved in the crash weren’t immediately released. The incident is at least the fourth crash involving a wrong-way driver on a Bay Area highway in recent months to lead to injuries or death. source : 2 drivers die in wrong-way crash on Highway 101 in Novato