Wrong-Way Crashes Kill Three Across States
Wrong-way crashes in Wisconsin, Kansas and Florida left three people dead and several others injured. In Waukesha County, a 23-year-old woman died after driving eastbound in westbound lanes on Highway 16 and striking two vehicles; their occupants suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and the crash remains under investigation. In Wichita, a 21-year-old driver going the wrong way on an I-135 ramp collided head-on with a vehicle driven by 45-year-old Loni Smith, who died; the younger driver was seriously injured and was not wearing a seatbelt. On I-295 near Jacksonville, a 34-year-old wrong-way driver died after sideswiping a sedan and hitting an SUV head-on; the sedan’s driver suffered minor injuries and the SUV’s driver was critically hurt.






