[Signalman]

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2 People Killed When Wrong-Way Driver Crashes Into Vehicle Along 118 Freeway in Porter Ranch

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I’ve never understood how this happens, until last week when I witnessed a driver sitting at a red light ahead of me.

The light turned green, he turned on his right signal and proceeded to drive up the exit ramp.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Suicide.

[al baby]

I use to drive the freeways in the early am this was the one thing that scart the wee wee out of me was seeing some oldsmobuick coming at me with some drunk behind the wheel prayers up for the innocents that were killed

[Robert DeLong]

I hated driving in California. Too many crazy drivers out there.

[dfwgator]

It is unknown why the driver, identified only as a 30-year-old man

Tells me all I need to know.

[gunsequalfreedom]

A second accident with the same circumstances happened on the 605 also.

[DAC21]

You don’t want to be in the fast lane late at night. The drunks get on the wrong side of the freeway and think they are in the slow lane being to the far right lane or so I have heard.

[ETL]

"The California Highway Patrol began hearing reports of a car driving west along the eastbound carpool lane of traffic at a high-rate of speed about 12:25 a.m." Sunday morning 12:25AM. aka, late Sat night.

Something tells me alcohol may be involved. :/

[dragnet2]

Not sure why a fatal collision with only 2 fatalities would make the news here or in LA. Probably because of the fact he was a wrong way mental case or drunk.

Looks like what's left of a BMW here. Looks like the air bag deployed. Probably felt like hitting a wall in this case. I recall a case where the driver was ejected out the moon roof of a Porsche or at least his torso did. It was a violent roll over, rolling about 15 times after losing control in excess of 120mph.

[MNDude]

Me on the phone with my wife: be careful, the radio just said a car is driving the wrong way on Highway 35.
My wife: not just one, hundreds of them!

[Eddie01]

"Stringer video captured the wrong-way driver along the 118 in San Fernando."

Weird.

I was on Netflix tonight and watched season 1, episode 1 of "Shot in the Dark"

Had never heard of a "stringer", but the show is about the highly competitive stringer world in L.A.

Was really interesting, they drive all night from emergency to emergency to get the shot and upload to a server local news affiliates pull from. Big money.

[cherry]

I hope they test for drugs

[x1stcav]

“the driver, identified only as a 30-year-old man”

Wanna bet he’s an illegal?

[2CAVTrooper]

I remember a Modern Marvel’s episode about the German Autobahn.

They had a Polizei chief who was talking about the driving laws and “Geisterfahrers” (Ghost drivers). Geisterfahrers are mentally ill, or sociopaths who deliberately drive the wrong way on the autobahns.

It even happens in broad daylight:

https://youtu.be/XKay6ivQGbs

[Pollster1]

Alcohol, drugs, suicide, illegal . . . pick all that apply.

[mewzilla]

https://patch.com/california/northridge/wrongway-driver-who-killed-2-118-identified

Driver ID’d. Name given, but no other info.