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Wrong-Way Crashes Kill One, Injure Trooper

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Wrong-Way Crashes Kill One, Injure Trooper

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Several wrong-way crashes involving suspected impaired drivers were reported. In Coos County, Oregon, a wrong-way driver died after colliding with a pickup; the pickup’s driver suffered minor injuries and was arrested on a DUII charge. In Virginia’s Prince George County, 71-year-old Edward Junious Whitby was arrested on charges of DUI and driving the wrong way after a head-on crash with a state police cruiser injured a trooper. In Flagstaff, Arizona, a woman was arrested on suspicion of DUI after striking a patrol vehicle while driving the wrong way; authorities did not release her identity or potential charges.

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