Tacoma, WA : 86-year-old drunk driver causes I-5 crash in Tacoma on Monday night, November 10, 2014
A drunken 86-year-old driver crashed into another car overnight while heading the wrong way up Interstate 5 in Tacoma, the Washington State Patrol reports.
State troopers responded to the southbound lanes of I-5 near the Tacoma Dome just after midnight Tuesday after receiving reports of a collision involving a wrong-way driver.
They found two heavily damaged vehicles and two injured drivers. The injuries were not life-threatening.
A preliminary investigation found that one of the drivers, an 86-year-old man believed to be alcohol-impaired, had been driving north in the southbound lanes of the freeway before crashing into the other vehicle. He was arrested and booked into jail for investigation of DUI and vehicular assault.
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Drunken driver, 86, causes wrong-way I-5 crash