What States are Doing About Wrong-Way Crashes

Truckinginfo By Deborah Lockridge December 12, 2022

It was around midnight on a December night. A trucker was headed westbound on I-20, not far from the Heflin weigh station near the Alabama-Georgia border, when his Freightliner was hit head-on by a Toyota Camry speeding the wrong way down the interstate. The 42-year-old woman driving the car was killed.

My husband and I were also on I-20 west just past Heflin that night, heading home from the Atlanta airport. We had to drive there from Birmingham to pick up our daughter, who otherwise was faced with a night in the airport after a long-delayed flight home from college for Christmas break.

We were just starting to pull out from behind a rig to pass when suddenly, lights were in our face and a car zoomed by, just missing us. It happened so fast, we couldn’t even comprehend what was happening until the car was nearly invisible in our rear-view mirror.

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