BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- A wrong-way driver slammed head-on Friday into a car full of sorority sisters who were caravanning to an airport for a spring break trip, killing three of the young women and the other driver.
The car carrying the three Alpha Xi Delta members, ages 19 to 21, and two other sorority sisters hit the wrong-way vehicle overnight on a rise in Interstate 75 south of Toledo, just miles from Bowling Green State University, which they all attended. The two survivors were seriously injured.
Sixteen sorority sisters were heading to the Detroit airport in different cars as they tried to make a 5:30 a.m. flight to the Dominican Republic, a friend said. Another vehicle carrying five of the students narrowly avoided the wrong-way driver, Ohio state troopers said.
"I don't think the college girls ever saw it coming. Nothing they could have done to avoid the crash," Wood County Sheriff Mark Wasylyshyn said.
The wrong-way driver, Winifred D. Lein, 69, of Perrysburg, Ohio, was traveling alone, authorities said. Investigators are looking into why she was driving on the wrong side of the divided highway.
"The college girls apparently did nothing wrong," Wasylyshyn said.
What do you think should be done about this situation? Should the legal age to drive be questioned? Should newer cars have brighter headlights? Better sign posts?
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I think that there should be better head lights
ReplyDeleteI Think the the age didn't have nothing to do with it.they said that they couldn't have done nothing about it anyway so it doesn't matter.I think if they have brighter headlights they wont be able to see it will blind them.But the sign post might help with it.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it was age or anything, but there should be tests for people who drive every few years or something.Brighter headlights could blind other drivers and result in more crashes.Signs are big enough as is.
ReplyDeleteThe age has nothing to do with what happened. Its just not paying attention. You could be 40 years old and mess up.
ReplyDeletei dont know what to say about this ! stuff like this happens so what can you say..
ReplyDeleteMaybe the old lady that was going the wrong way was on something. Youu arent just going to be on the wrong side of the interstate
ReplyDeleteThe sign posts would definitely help and I agree with LaRonda. She made a valid point. They could have not avoided the situation. I'm sorry for the lives that were lost :'(
ReplyDeleteI Agree With Shirene .
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