Fatal head-on crash on I-696: Footage of victim caught on camera

A wrong-way driver slammed into the victim on I-696 Friday morning. Police say the driver is believed to have been intoxicated and was driving on a suspended license.
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[@angelav1181]

Smh....the drunk drivers always survive...stop drinking and driving you always kill the innocent people...put her in jail

[@Trump_20-24_YEARS_in_PRISON]

I really wonder why that is.

[@samantha3388]

I believe they’ve been able to prove that you’re less likely to get seriously hurt when your body is more relaxed. When you know something bad is going to happen, you tense up and that causes more bodily harm unfortunately.

[@999JWforever]

Cuz alcohol gives you superpowers You stop caring You stop feeling pain You think you're unstoppable

[@lcheng000]

This is why God doesn’t exist. There is no Karma, no hell, no heaven, no reincarnation.

[@johnrambo1349]

God won't take you if you are drunk. So if you wanna survive a car crash, always drink and drive.

[@LibraLuvStyle]

This is how my parents were killed by a drunk driver back in 1997. Except the drunk driver died in the crash too. My heartfelt condolences to the victims family and friends. I’m so sorry this happened to you all💐 I hope the drunk driver in this situation spends a very long time in prison.

[@LibraLuvStyle]

@Jason thank you💜

[@mynintendogamingfeed5208]

​@@LibraLuvStyle Holy cow... I was 4 back in '97... Where did this occur?

[@LibraLuvStyle]

@@mynintendogamingfeed5208 I was 17 at the time, and I live in Canada.

[@neverhungryagain2187]

Damn 97, biggie died in 1997

[@mynintendogamingfeed5208]

@@LibraLuvStyle Wow. Was this on the CAN 401 Freeway? In Ontario?

[@celia6564]

How many deaths will it take before stronger punishment is given to ppl driving under the influence? If you're drunk and you kill somebody it should be an automatic life sentence.

[@kristinwuori3769]

Driving on a suspended license no less.

[@ChangingAperture]

100%!! Life in prison without possibility for parole. The person you killed will never get their life back so neither do you

[@tdr2101]

should be automatic life sentence no parole

[@jeffdarnell7942]

It's one thing to have a drink or 2. If you're out driving on the wrong side of an interstate, that's a WHOLE other issue. And for this asshole to have no license as well.

[@keytoinfinity4362]

​@@jeffdarnell7942it's the "I only drank 1 or 2 drinks" or " I wasn't even that drunk mentality" that ends up with people dying or seriously injured. Don't drink and drive period. If you do the law should have harsher punishments. That includes any distractions like texting.

[@gowifb]

Just a tip for everyone that at night try to not be in the left lane of travel if possible as that is where most of these wrong way drunk idiots are going to be since they think they are on a two way road in the right lane. At one point on 3 consecutive visits to my family over the course of a few months I came upon wrong way drivers on a divided multi lane highway. Two of them passed me and one had just crashed and killed someone. All of them had been in the left lane.

[@waynefoote3781]

I no longer drive but in case I do again one day Thank you very much.

[@Charmander009]

Good tip

[@randallsmerna384]

Sage advice.

[@Deploracle]

That lane is also where all the smartphone idiots travel against the flow of traffic.

[@gm2282]

Yes happened to me many years ago. Never forget the driver I was with didn't even spot it until I told him. Very scary and lucky to be alive.

[@DRA25dra]

People like that don't deserve to see the light of day they do it on purpose.

[@keithjohnsonsr5622]

I’ve been hit by a wrong way driver and survived. I feel for the family having to go through this!

[@geegeeandlulu]

Gee. That must’ve been horrible ❤

[@buckwheat880]

What about your family

[@blackericdenice]

I had a wrong way driver to come at me. I changed lanes. It helps to pay attention driving late at night.

[@Evarose26]

@@blackericdenice me too on the night of July 4th, I had to swerve off the road and luckily I saw it in time but now it’s truly one of my biggest fears

[@blackericdenice]

@@Evarose26 I don't drive in the fast lane around 285 in Atlanta late at night. There are some curves where you can't see around them. Some years ago, I ran over a dead body. I didn't find out it was really a body until I heard it on the news later that day. I didn't stop because I knew the cops would have me there for hours.

[@johnneal7169]

Never fails. It's ALWAYS the person that causes this that walks away while others don't.

[@parodylover999]

Yeah, thanks to the car that's surprisingly tougher than the newer one, despite being older. The good part of these videos are knowing what tough cars we should wanna be in.

[@ruelpile]

It always seems like the drunk driver never dies in these accidents.

[@NT-lq3lq]

Good that way they have a whole life to regret their decisions

[@Charmander009]

@@NT-lq3lq they usually only get few years in prison

[@ruelpile]

@@NT-lq3lq Wouldn't it be better for the person in the wrong (the drunk driver) to lose their life rather than the innocent victim?

[@socialbutterfly114]

True

[@socialbutterfly114]

@@ruelpile true and the person knew they were going the wrong way

[@nathan.brazil780]

Almost never is this a first offense. Usually they have multiple DUI's previously and were not stopped by the system. Now an innocent person is dead because of the failures of the Injustice system. If they actually started putting these people in prison for extended periods after the 2nd DUI it would go a long way to actually stopping these senseless tragedies.

[@randallsmerna384]

Actually, if they were executed after being found guilty you'd be surprised just how quickly that sh*t stops.

[@kathypriest95]

A cop will tell you that getting a dui is like winning the lottery. You have to play a lot to win. That was years ago. When the estimated rate of impared drivers was 1 in 10. With legalized weed, I can only guess at that figure.

[@deborahfenley5825]

Stiffer penalties for DUI drivers especially if it involves a fatality. Prayers for the family 🙏

[@radiohobbyist13]

This will continue to happen as long as our society tolerates it. The punishment for drunk driving isn't serious enough AT ALL!!! 😡🤷

[@Kevin-wj4ed]

Life in prison!!!!!!

[@EdwardW98]

And then some

[@jojo710]

@Crazy_Clown_In_Town I have been saying this for years! The impaired drivers make the choice to drink and or do drugs, THEN get behind the wheel and MURDER innocent people/families etc. I agree with you 100%!!!

[@sledgenwedge]

The most you can get for vehicle or manslaughter in some States is only 13 years. Per victim

[@ChangingAperture]

@@sledgenwedgein my opinion that’s not manslaughter, that’s murder. I know the legality but it should be vehicular murder

[@joelbrooks3198]

​@@ChangingAperture Yes bigtime, especially since they didn't stop when the police car was behind them with lights flashing.

[@REALTOR_MI]

The person responsible for this does not deserve to see the light of day.

[@sarahdelozier4054]

Makes me sad that the terrible people causing this to live and the unsuspecting innocent ones die? It is just a sad outcome 😔

[@melodiechartier5173]

yeah that's karma for you...

[@parodylover999]

because the guilty ones choose solid cars with A pillars that tolerate highway speeds. but i'm shocked to see a jeep that old tolerate it.

[@325irollin]

Personal responsibility indeed. RIP to the innocent victims and rot in prison to the driver

[@christopherroth9097]

I can not say this enough. I work as a FF/EMT. I have cleaned up these scenes too many times. Driving intoxicated (drugs / alcohol) is the most irresponsible, careless, selfish thing anyone can do. If you take yourself out driving intoxicated...good riddance to bad trash. If you take out someone else while driving intoxicated and live, you should be thrown under the jail in a very dark hole for the rest of your life. If you die, then bury you in a gunny sack in an unmarked grave to be forgotten! I have NO compassion for the intoxicated driver! NONE AT ALL!!

[@melodiechartier5173]

i agree but i do t agree with jail, i agree with death penalty cause they murdered someone.

[@parodylover999]

Well at least these videos teach us what car models we wanna be in, which ones are the toughest in reality, that mild crash tests won't tell us.

[@Soul_N_Control]

Tired drunk is just as bad

[@diachilders3271]

Absofuckinlutely!!! Couldnt have said it better myself!

[@kathypriest95]

We wanted our kid to be an emt, but he went into law enforcement. I'm pretty sure it was because he didn't want to see the things you just described. But he gets there first. My thanks to you for all you do

[@ChangingAperture]

Lock that driver up for life! Period. If you take a life while being so blatantly negligent then you deserve life in prison without parole. The other driver will never get their life back so neither do you.

[@mariacardo6123]

The good die young and the POS people make it through. Its sickening. I hope they are haunted by this for the rest of their lives.

[@roserea3156]

No accountability

[@allthingsharbor]

People who care and would be haunted by such a tragedy are not out drinking and driving.

[@lastcommodore9651]

The drivers who cause these crashes tend to be younger people themselves.

[@Robbie1075]

The sad part is, in a lot of these situations the drunk drivers were intoxicated enough that they don't even remember the accident. The penalty should be no less than life in prison without the possibility for parole and the death penalty should be on the table.

[@mandyellis876]

Rest assured they won’t be. If you’re such an inexcusable bit of human detritus that you’d get behind the wheel under the influence, you are basically thumbing your nose at people!

[@CookieB220]

I’m glad it was not shown,BUT exactly where was the “footage of the victim caught on camera”???

[@annehedonia156]

Even the news clickbaits. 🤦‍♀️

[@Hothenrik]

Why is it the innocent victims always die due to the stupidity of others?? This is disgusting beyond words! It needs to be the other way!!😡

[@ChrisAndCats]

The wrong way ones always seem to survive.

[@melodiechartier5173]

Cause life sucks and humans are disgusting

[@jameshoopes6467]

That’s not an accident. That’s murder.

[@jazzkatt7083]

I'm not buying that they were just "intoxicated". This seems malicious and intentional as they had an abundance of opportunities to realize what they were doing 😮

[@ChrisAndCats]

Especially with flashing lights behind them.

[@fdd102811]

100% agree

[@feliciajohns4148]

RIP to all victims and my condolences

[@m118lr]

….Amen.

[@carolynsirianni1251]

I almost went up the exit part of a highway at 16 years old, when I just got my driving license. And not drinking of course. This is a horrific situation& my heart goes out to the family’s of the victims. ❤

[@dawnm.divincenzo7774]

That is scary for any new driver, I know because I entered into a circle, or as we call it in Boston, a rotary, from the left side when I was 18.

[@jasono2139]

Many people have gone the wrong way down a one way street as a new driver... Except even new drivers know when they've screwed up, realizing they're going the wrong way and stop. These drunks are so intoxicated that they barely know they're even driving. 🤦

[@donarthiazi2443]

​@@jasono2139 A just-married Australian couple on their honeymoon flew into Monterey right after I was stationed at Fort Ord. The exhausted newlyweds rented a car... and 2 seconds after pulling onto the highway(incorrectly) they drove directly into an 18 wheeler and were killed instantly. It is not so easy to drive on Australia or the UK or Japan or anywhere they drive on the left hand side.

[@jasono2139]

@@donarthiazi2443 yup... That'd be hard to adjust to driving on the opposite side of the road.

[@MrMedalice]

I have been driving on right way at highway, but somehow i got confused that im driving on wrong side of the highway and scared the shiet out of me. This happened 2 times back ages ago, weird but scary.

[@roxiefern]

My deepest condolences to the family of this innocent victim 🙏 💔 I have zero tolerance of drunk drivers as I'm a family member who suffered the tragic loss of my 23yo brother 😢

[@ladypost0925]

This IS a tragedy because a completely innocent driver was killed! Now this person’s family is experiencing the horrific trauma and reality of having just lost their loved one via another’s senseless act…SMH! My sincerest condolences to the affected family 😢

[@simoncooper4937]

That is so true. I work for FedEx as a delivery driver, and I said the same thing to my coworkers when they are on the highway, to always stay in the traveling lane nobody should be in the lanes to the left anyway, unless you are passing someone that is why they are called passing lanes.. but yes, you are very correct! Hopefully everybody is aware and alert. Always keep your eyes down the road looking 15 seconds ahead, not directly down at the road. That is the only way you will see it before it happens so you have a chance to avoid! Good luck and everyone stay safe! God bless!

[@fdd102811]

Your advice is valid but the innocent driver, who is my dad, was entering 696 from eastbound 94. He only had the option of the two left lanes when merging onto 696. The accident happened just after the Gratiot overpass. My dad didn’t have but 1/2 a mile on the freeway before it happened. So anyone saying don’t drive in the left lane, sometimes, unfortunately, you don’t have a choice when merging onto certain freeways. And the accident occurred at the curve at Gratiot. It was a blind spot. My dad nor the other driver would have been able to see one another in time to react.

[@tutsybassista]

This happened to my mom's friend. He was gambling with 3 other friends -all in their 70's, and were hit head on, by a female 19 year old drunk driver. All of them died, my mom's friend and his friends were NOT drinking, and the worst was the car went up into flames! They were basically "burnt beyond recognition." It's still awful just thinking about it.....

[@TrenosUK]

Forget the age and gender it’s the drunk that matters.

[@tutsybassista]

@@TrenosUK Actually it's even worse because of her age. Whomever provided the alcohol and knew she was driving was at fault because it was illegal. They still haven't found out who.

[@YernBelfus]

I am an honorably-retired police officer with a law enforcement career spanning 30 years. I worked very hard to get DUI offenders off the road. I've done more successful DUI cases than any patrol officer I know.

[@TheTruthKiwi]

Good job officer. Sadly as long as people can drink and drive it's always going to happen but showing the aftermath and educating young drivers, as well as heavily prosecuting offenders, can hopefully make more people think twice before jumping behind the wheel.

[@0230Raveena]

Commendable the work that officers do. Not to mention, put their own lives at risk every day. No doubt your service has saved many lives. I hope you are enjoying retirement.

[@logancoltersr4163]

Puff Puff Pass

[@YernBelfus]

@@logancoltersr4163 I have advanced "ARIDE" (Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement) DUI training, and I also served as an FTO (Field Training Officer) helping new officers to develop their proficiency. I always found marijuana DUI arrests to be very rewarding. Marijuana stays in the system for up to 30 days, so marijuana users are arrestable any time they get behind the wheel, even if it's prescribed by a doctor. And it's a felony for marijuana users to possess firearms even in states where marijuana is "legalized", so one traffic stop can often turn into a whole lot more.

[@YernBelfus]

@@0230Raveena Thank you for the kind words. I think about that a lot. The ones that stick with me are the ones killed by DUI drivers. And yes, retirement ROCKS. My last day on the road was at age 55. I retired with a tax-free retirement pension and free medical for life, equivalent to a six-figure income. My young wife and I own a beautiful brick home with a swimming pool and custom movie theater, located on our private gated 5-acre estate. We try to spend one month a year in Europe, doing things like dining in the Eiffel Tower. Life is good. Very good.

[@crisespinoza1979]

Driver should be dropped from 1000 feet so she could know true terror of what she did.

[@mnmrmai8299]

My boyfriend was killed by a drunk driver as well... Ive never been the same since. His 19year old cousin was also in the car and didnt survive.. Drunk drivers need to have extremely harsh penalties already!!!

[@joygraybill4444]

I understand they were drunk, but at some point if they're dodging traffic with headlights coming at them, don't they realize they're going the wrong way.? Esp.since there was a passenger?

[@joelbrooks3198]

Exactly! Makes no sense.

[@shirleyanneyoung955]

The passenger would be as drunk as the pos driving.

[@KingJeremy77]

No I matter how many times it happens people will never learn. I hope they lock this individual up for life.

[@melodiechartier5173]

death penalty

[@computerweenie]

Of course once again the drunks survive while an innocent driver paid with his life and now his family and friends must say goodbye.

[@sistakia33]

The problem is people don't seem to understand that you need to make arrangements to get home safe BEFORE you have that first drink! The moment you start drinking your ability to make rational decisions is going to lessen. The more you drink the more likely you're going to forget how many drinks you've had and you're going to make mistakes especially if you get behind the wheel. 😢

[@Stressless2023]

At that time of night I can't imagine there was enough traffic not to warrant an immediate pit maneuver.

[@grimeyhonkyracing3938]

Excellent point, this should have been number one priority

[@CJinsoo]

I wonder if training is not to do a pit in that situation with live oncoming traffic?

[@kustomhooligans]

That's what I was wondering! Dequindre to Greenfield is close to 5 miles, plenty of time to pit maneuver the offending vehicle. I know if I were a cop or even a civilian and had a chance to pit them, I certainly would have done it. Condolences to the family of the lady who lost her life. Absolutely unnecessary and heartbreaking.

[@joelbrooks3198]

​@@CJinsoo If there was a sizable gap until any oncoming traffic , then the pit maneuver should have been done.

[@LostDesertGirl]

There are many reasons that PIT Maneuvers cannot be performed. Only one reason is too high of speed. Please don't immediately assume that PIT maneuvers can just be performed on any car and in any condition.

[@pnwadventurer9674]

I hope the suspect isn’t ok!!!!

[@elizabethprater-hughett8021]

It absolutely makes my blood boil because the DRUNKS almost always survive and an innocent person is slaughtered in a horrific collision. I almost typed horrific accident. But, there's nothing accidental about it....🤬

[@megclifton6692]

How do you know??? Were you there and did the investigation???

[@markcopland5738]

They will be soft on crime even though a life was lost,if they get back on the road and do it again,the judge needs some prison time.

[@tykaye8032]

drunk or not that was intentional asf. if the police was behind em why tf would u keep going. should be first degree murder with the pure intent to kill.

[@Moe1979100]

Remember- Yellow line is always on the left side. White line is always on right side. If yellow is on right side you’re going the wrong direction… I hope this helps someone one day..

[@joelbrooks3198]

These are divided highways. No yellow lines.

[@LostDesertGirl]

True, but lights coming at you is a pretty good indication that something is a mess. Even Stone Cold wasted, I think most people that are conscious enough to operate a car would be able to notice that! But not these two people. Yikes!

[@LostDesertGirl]

*amiss*

[@johnjerman3421]

since when are there yellow lines on a freeway?

[@kristinwuori3769]

Driving on a suspended license. When will lawmakers decide to not just take away their license for DUI but take away their car? Make it harder for them to get behind the wheel to begin with. As long as the license is suspended, so should the car be impounded. Not a perfect solution, but far better than this outcome. So heartbreaking and infuriating.

[@megclifton6692]

That's a dumb idea they will just get another car...

[@tracycordero3198]

This is disgusting. We always watch the wrong person die because an adult can not make adult like right choices. To the family of the lady who died I am so sorry. To the persons family who will forever be changed because of DWI I am sorry 😢 for you too.

[@citythink]

The Cop says it’s not a tragedy but “personal responsibility” and poor editing makes him sound incredibly insensitive to the deceased 68-year old victim who was driving the right way. I’m positive that’s not what he intended.

[@harryknutts8428]

I’m a truck driver and I drive everywhere mostly though back-and-forth Detroit and Chicago and I’ll say that I 75 from down river of the Pontiac is pretty dangerous 696 is usually OK but you still got a watch what’s going on Southfield freeway is kind of crazy sometimes 96 between downtown and Lavonia both ways is pretty laid-back. Usually 94 is always like days of thunder. Telegraph is hell especially in a semi those lights man you can’t make two of them in a row.

[@snappleshibes26]

94’s a disaster. I started taking M-60 just to avoid all the morons on it whenever I have deliveries going into or out of the Detroit area. I’ve been nearly pushed into Jersey walls in Kalamazoo’s construction and I’ve been running into a lot of drivers doing 50 on the interstate lately. I have a chance of getting stuck behind a farm tractor and taking much longer on M-60 but it’s so freeing to at least cut that stressful section of driving out.

[@kustomhooligans]

I've seen many, many, many fatal accidents on 94 btwn Ford road and metro parkway/16 mile. I've seen deceased accident victims I will never forget. Stay vigilant. Drive offensively at the race track and defensively on the freeway.

[@harryknutts8428]

@@snappleshibes26 ya its getting worse, i dont like alternative routes from detroit to chicago but when u are just wasting time sitting in traffic then its time to go other ways, i was doing the m-60 thing alot last year , m-60 to 69 south to 80/90 to chicago pretty easy takes about 25 minutes longer but when u start sitting 30 minutes or more then its a better way, if u need food tho those travel plazas on 80/90 kinda suck and are expensive, the mcdonalds on m-60 is knida OK sometimes , some life huh when mcdonalds is your best bet smh,,,, 94 has a couple resturants that are good, dennys 94 at mm110 has superslam breakfast for 6.99 and the resturant at mm115 is ok mm92 arlenes is ok ,,,, hey be safe driver

[@snappleshibes26]

@@harryknutts8428 Agreed. My company hates us taking tolls so I only use tolls if I’m rolling through Chicago or Ohio if I can help it. My company has a yard along M-60 so sometimes I get lucky enough to shut down along it and leave my truck for some better food options. You too driver, it’s a crazy world out there.

[@pattysmet8285]

Their reflexes are always relaxed while being intoxicated! They live , and innocent people die! Just so unfair!!

[@SCSC-qz7rr]

Another irresponsible driver who affected an innocent victim’s life… I hope he goes to jail for the rest of his life and his license suspended forever. As for the victims, my thoughts and prayers are with them🙏✝️

[@daviddntait]

You would think that by now, the penalty for drunk driving even without causing a crash, should carry a 20year MANDATORY prison sentence. How many more people need to die before the consequence matches the crime?

[@joelbrooks3198]

Not all drunk driving is the same. Some are just a little over the limit while others can be twice the limit or higher. That should be taken into consideration and also how were they driving, whether they were swerving or not.

[@daviddntait]

@Joel Brooks nope. ZERO TOLERANCE needs to be the only way. That logic is the exact reason people even attempt to drive intoxicated in the first place. It's 2023, we have Uber/Lift, public transportation etc...there is no excuse why you need to even chance it. After all the heartbreak and loss that drunk driving has caused, it only seems fair to have a zero tolerance law enacted already. When do draw the line?

[@joelbrooks3198]

@@daviddntait The legal limit is so low. You could be over it and still drive without a significant risk of causing an accident.

[@daviddntait]

@Joel Brooks this is true and I agree. However, if it were that simple, one could argue that you should be able to have a beer or two while on the clock at work....and you aren't even driving! But it's okay to have a beer or two before driving?

[@megclifton6692]

​@@daviddntait dude people are drunk it affects your thinking ability...

[@1MChantye]

Michigan State Police, please start ticketing these speed demons. The fast and reckless drivers are getting worse daily. Everywhere and even off the freeways. Its scary😰

[@ms55938]

The problem is that people who can afford to hire a lawyer to take care of speeding tickets get those tickets amended to an equipment violation which does not put any points on your driving record. Thy just have to pay a bigger fine. Depending on the prosecuting attorney, people can get by with multiple speeding, careless driving tickets and still have no points. This needs to stop. Adding points to driving records is done for a reason, to suspend habitual speeders and keep them off the road for awhile and maybe teach them a damn lesson.

[@dmoneyas24]

They issue speeding tickets all the time. But what does that have to do with this story

[@toddbrimer5672]

There is some craziness on the roads in this lawless life we live in now. I drive at least a 100 miles a day and it's just nuts.

[@sledgenwedge]

And let's not forget the overly cautious slow drivers they cause death also

[@ms55938]

@@sledgenwedge Yes, like the ones that crawl on an entrance ramp to a highway and pull right out in front of you when you're doing 65 like they have the right of way.

[@chadjones2308]

I pray for the families that were affected. I've been saying it I live out here in Arizona and we have them out here. My idea is very simple put the metal spikes at the exits of every on-ramp And you guys know what I'm talking about like the metal spikes when you leave a parking lot the weight of the car pushes them down but if you go the opposite way it'll pop the tires. Now if we put those at the exit of every highway again they don't need to be extended. Have a sensor as soon as it detects a car going the wrong way before they enter that ramp those spikes come up! Once those spikes come up they are going to destroy every single tire they are not going to get far

[@godmade4511]

That happened to my cousin she snuck out of a house part wasted and was driving on the wrong side of the freeway and hit a semi head on she was only 18 rip Vanessa she was still till this day the most beautiful person I ever knew inside and out 😭

[@jsterling6805]

Sorry that you lost a cousin due to irresponsible behavior. The blessing is she didn’t claim an innocent life by her wrong choices.

[@BonnieRexeus]

May the victims RIP

[@candysmith8724]

The loser drunks always live. My condolences to the family of the victim.

[@parodylover999]

cuz the one thing theycre good at is choosing vehicles with solid enough A pillars to take a highway hit.

[@jonawesolowski-thecommunit9968]

In like 1977ish, sometime around then, (I was 8 so I don't remember the exact year) my Mom was an active alcoholic. She was going the wrong way, and exited up an entrance ramp. I gratefully thank God and all the stars aligning in the universe, that she stopped before something tragic and irreversible happened. She got sober not long after and stayed sober the rest of her life. She passed from cancer in '09. I cannot fathom why this just keeps happening, and so many innocent people are killed. This is not infrequent either 😡

[@lolablack1111]

This is so heartbreaking 💔 There's plenty of options out there if you want to go out & get Inebriated. Stop making innocent driver's & their families pay for your poor choices.

[@hifiman4562]

The trooper should have pitted the wrong way driver. Like immediately.

[@garycastronova7939]

You can't pit at those speeds you will cause a multiple vehicle collision and kill other drivers as well as the drunk driver. They have policies in place about when they can do pit maneuvers such as below 35 mph only and only after cleared by a supervisor. PIT maneuvers are not as easy as you think

[@theeater1756]

Wrong. Thanks for stopping by to criticize the police while not mentioning the murderer at all.

[@randallsmerna384]

You can and they should have. It's a matter of practice and understanding physics.

[@garycastronova7939]

@@randallsmerna384 absolute BS. I was hit in a pit style maneuver trying to pass someone, they didn't see me and they turned left into my right rear end. i was in a jeep Cherokee. I was only doing 35 and i rolled it 5 tmes and crushed the roof. If I hadn't been wearing a seatbelt I would have been thrown out and dead for certain. Even the chp officers couldn't believe I survived. You don't know what you're talking about kid. The police can't do a pit maneuver like that someone will be seriously injured or killed, especially on a highway at night going the opposite direction...there will be multiple vehicles involved and probably numerous fatalities. Think.

[@randallsmerna384]

@@garycastronova7939 You obviously haven't seen ASP in action. You also didn't understand anything I said about physics, skill or planning. I couldn't give two s**ts about the wrong-way driver. Ain't your "kid"...

[@audraarndt1824]

Frickin sad.

[@trinc9015]

😡 drivers that have no regard for others . Rip the the victim and condolences to the family of the lost innocent victim 😢🙏🏻

[@CaddyJim]

It's so sad how drunk drivers have a higher percentage of surviving because they'they're limp and can absorb impact better

[@parodylover999]

and because of the tougher vehicles they choose

[@Charmander009]

The reason for all these wrong way drivers is no street lights on freeways or highways . I’ve been on some pitch dark roads at night . Spend some money and brighten up these roads . U don’t see any wrong way drivers at day time . It’s always night

[@Urbicide]

I had one daylight cruiser coming straight at me on I-75 N in Florida years ago. I believe it was probably an elderly person, perhaps a dementia patient. Regardless, the driver didn't respond to me flashing my headlights on & off at them as the distance closed. I finally pulled way off into the breakdown lane, & the car drove right on by. I saw tire marks in the grass median a few miles down the road, leading from the southbound lanes into the northbound.

[@18thSTVATO]

I’d never get on a highway way too many people die on them for me or be comfortable

[@CJinsoo]

being drunk/stoned probably had more to do with it. the sober drivers on the other side of the freeway apparently managed the darkness.

[@Deploracle]

Ahh so it OUR fault then for not making every road as bright as day? Why would drivers need light anyway since they almost never look up from their phones?

[@kylepatterson851]

Exactly, every highway off ramp should have a sign or two with flashing lights, warning a wrong way entrance. A sign, out of the way, in the dark on an off ramp isn't enough, especially in a location that has a lot of traffic.

[@MF-ty2zn]

Time to hold bars and bartenders responsible as accomplices. Use breathalyzers to determine whether or not someone can be served alcohol and hold keys.

[@joelbrooks3198]

Make people give up the keys to drink.

[@megclifton6692]

Nobody would go to a bar and btw people don't have to be at bars to drink smh where do you people even come from???

[@brianmonroe488]

She NEEDS to be put in prison for the rest of her life. Take a life and forfeit yours!

[@wolfandhoundh.a.e]

That should be life in prison without the possibility of parole

[@richardunitedstatesmarinecorps]

🥀🌹🥀 I do not, and will never, understand WTF is going on with these people who drink and drive. How will it ever change? Here’s an idea of what might possibly have an impact on those that think they are fine to drive, pay no attention to our laws... How about locking people up for quite a period of time the FIRST time they get pulled over, see how much fun it is behind bars. By the time any of these drunk driving people get caught, you know this isn’t the first time they drove drunk. It’s only the first time they were caught. Things have to change. Obviously, what these judges are fining the driver for, given a warning about if they come in to court for the same reason, then we’re going to not just give you a slap on the wrist, we’ll add a fine to it. By the time these drunken drivers kill someone, they have driven umpteen million times drunk. Like I said initially, I will never get it why it continues to happen, other than how lenient the judges are to the people. The police do their job, and from then on, the courts, defense attorneys and judges, ignore all of the hard work the police do to help keep us safe. Judges were lawyers first before being seated on the bench. Their thoughts and actions were always to find a way to free the person with little or no consequences for their action. My heart breaks when the innocent people, living their life, looking forward to another beautiful moment, their life cut short from a drunk driver. May this person who died from the drunk driver, be peaceful resting. May their loved ones and friends know that our hearts are also broken for you. 🥀♥️🥀

[@glennjohnso310]

I wonder why the trooper didn’t use a PIT maneuver.

[@garycastronova7939]

You can't pit at those speeds and if they did it would probably cause multi vehicle accident and deaths. The drunk drivers SUV would have flipped for certain and probably killed them. Then people like you would be commenting that the police are murderers..

[@Deploracle]

Probably to avoid the mayhem and carnage of a multi-vehicle collision against 70 mph traffic?

[@tomsnyder6955]

This is ridiculous on how people drive

[@M.S.Fitness]

Should be a mandatory 10year prison sentence for being caught DUI

[@Deploracle]

Everybody's always drunk, or having heart attacks, anything at all we can blame these accidents on except distracted driving via smartphone. Since everyone is on their phones all the time, they can never be the cause of anything bad.

[@erinnicole5748]

Distracted driving is a huge problem but this person was in fact intoxicated. Both issues can and do exist at the same time. Being intoxicated is enough to cause an accident. Drunk drivers were hitting and killing folks way before cell phones existed.

[@Deploracle]

@@erinnicole5748 Considering the agenda to make phones an integral part of everything, there is a lot of financial force behind blaming anything but phones. On top of that .. my government is dirty af. I think I would need an official toxicology report to believe the drunk excuse. Each day I drive, within the first 30 minutes I will see on average 3 phone-related potential accidents, and a half-dozen "sitting at green lights" phone users requiring a honk, or 4, to snap out of it. It's getting so bad that phone users are now tuning out the sound of a car horn, requiring multiple quick blasts to get a reaction. You're right it's a huge problem. Imagine seeing 9 drunk drivers, 3 almost getting into accidents, in the first 30 minutes driving your car in the morning, each and every day? I think the problem with phones is way bigger than huge.

[@Luixcc]

Because this person was drunk why would they lie and say something else?

[@Deploracle]

@@Luixcc Do you understand the nature of addiction? Denial is the centerpiece.

[@treallocdin]

And alcohol is perfectly legal.

[@mikemiller659]

Its time to GO has approached. and smoking cigaretts too

[@grimeyhonkyracing3938]

​@@mikemiller659 I agree, alcohol is poison and destroys everything it touches

[@Deploracle]

.. and still continues to be sold TO GO across the nation.

[@tammyhildreth8242]

Sad. It’s always the innocent drivers who die and not the damn addicts or drunk drivers who only care about themselves.

[@dadscavaliers642]

7 months ago our area lost a family of 6 this way. and the drunk died too, both cars went up in flames!

[@MountainTess]

I'm just sorry for the family and friends of the innocent driver who was killed. My heart really goes out to them. Thank God for that Chief understanding what the trooper will now go through, also. I am hoping he will be good support for the trooper. I certainly don't blame him at all for being so disgusted. He's absolutely correct - it's personal responsibility. Drunks do not belong driving. I hope Shianna and her boyfriend will be okay. I'm just so sorry.

[@EmeraldView]

I've gotten MANY piggy-back rides from the bar. Great way to travel, especially when drunk.

[@leeneufeld4140]

I prefer a wheelbarrow ;)

[@LostDesertGirl]

I got a piggyback ride home from a bar years ago. The guy was 6 ft 6 and when I was disembarking, I fell and broke my wrist. LOL. Definitely not funny at the time! At least nobody else got hurt because of my night out drinking!

[@EmeraldView]

@@LostDesertGirl There are some risks in using piggy back rides for transportation. The Transportation Safety Administration has been researching various ways to make it safer.

[@MrAkatango25]

This is why you don't travel in the left lane. Only use it to pass and move back over. Wrong way drivers drive in what they think is the right lane. Going the wrong lane means the left lane for you.

[@fdd102811]

Your advice is valid but the innocent driver, who is my dad, was entering 696 from eastbound 94. He only had the option of the two left lanes when merging onto 696. The accident happened just after the Gratiot overpass. My dad didn’t have but 1/2 a mile on the freeway before it happened. So anyone saying don’t drive in the left lane, sometimes, unfortunately, you don’t have a choice when merging onto certain freeways.

[@margief1798]

Instead of your Trooper being BEHIND the car, maybe she should've been in FRONT of it!! Or at least beside it!! It should haunt the Trooper!! My own personal opinion as a retired Firefighter/EMT!!

[@danielhartin7680]

The only course of action would have been for the trooper to wait for a break in oncoming traffic, then position herself beside the vehicle and perform a PIT maneuver. All the while hoping oncoming traffic doesn't reappear.

[@dmoneyas24]

Hey Michigan State Police command staff, why don’t you write a policy such that the troopers can actually intervene (i.e. use PIT) when pursuing a wrong way driver!!?? Right now all they can do is watch the crash happen as they attempt to alert the driver with lights.

[@charronrose68]

Lol I don't think they make the rules lmso at you

[@dmoneyas24]

@@charronrose68 they can change their policy to allow it

[@grimeyhonkyracing3938]

If I was a cop I'd do it anyway and worry about getting fired later

[@joelbrooks3198]

​@@grimeyhonkyracing3938 100% right on. I very highly doubt that they would get fired when they clearly likely saved innocent lives.

[@michaelwright1602]

I was running 94 and 696 for a few months during the early hours... Wrong way drivers were common...

[@blackpill1420]

Why was this do you think?

[@michaelwright1602]

@@blackpill1420 Drugs and alcohol... Another day in the Big City... You can see some wild stuff around Detroit and the surrounding area after midnight.

[@Deploracle]

The more smartphones in the hands of drivers, the more wrong way crashes occur. I wonder if there is a correlation?

[@joelbrooks3198]

​@@michaelwright1602 Drugs and alcohol have been around for many years but there was not anywhere near this level of drivers going the wrong way. So there is more to it than that.

[@michaelwright1602]

@@joelbrooks3198 Personally, I think it is the jab.

[@saundrahuff5870]

I cannot even begin to explain the rage my family feels on how it seems that the one who is at fault for a head on collision seems to be able to walk away with minimum injuries while the innocent victims lives are forever damaged, physically and mentally. And, how they try to victim blame the ones they destroyed. You try watching your child’s heart stop in front of you, dying, while being attacked by the ones who decided driving high while on methadone, or explaining to her 6 month old and 4 yo why mommy is “sleeping” while trying to grasp at any little sign of surviving, when I was told repeatedly she had less then 1% chance of surviving. While trying to keep her husband’s will to live going on his “failure” to protect the woman he loves. When the only fucking thing they did wrong was to be on the same road as that fucking monster. It’s been 7 years, and their lives, their dreams were forever destroyed. And, we were lucky. Out of the thousands of little miracles that needed to happen, in an exact order, actually happened. While the driver that caused it hurt his fucking foot.

[@NikkiNole]

Something that is completely avoidable!

[@stewartfoster6581]

"We don't care HOW you get home"...so I walked home and they arrested me for public intoxication....

[@RaymondMiranda-gi8lb]

Give them life

[@jenniferw5095]

Prayers for the family and friends 🙏 ❤️ 💙 💔 so sorry you lost your loved one.

[@Kimberly-pf4iy]

My condolences and prayers to the victim who died and to the victim's family. How many people have to die from these selfish drunk drivers before these drunks finally have the good sense to not drive. Take a cab, an uber, go out with someone who will not be drinking. A human life is much more important than a drunk's good time. 😢🙏 💐

[@educatedhorses193]

Strange how things are. Blame the drunk driver for the tragedy but if it was a gun that caused the death then they would blame the gun So should they blame the vehicle or the alcohol for causing it?

[@megclifton6692]

I said the same things...They do it with guns because they want a defenseless society is why

[@obviousness8113]

Honestly, driving the wrong way on the highway is exactly as dangerous as firing a gun into a crowd. They should start looking at ways to take out the vehicle by disabling it or crashing it off the road themselves.

[@thomasjohnson2435]

Passenger should be in jail too with the same charges as the driver. Equally responsible for the death!

[@gaydenmaccallum508]

My condolences for your loss. Too many drunk drivers only get a slap on the wrist. Tougher sentences for DWI needed.

[@markmckinney9821]

It's disgusting beyond all imagination. Throw the book at these killers.

[@proudwhitestraightman1574]

I'm guessing an asylum seekers

[@freyastar4399]

I think I missed it. Did they mention anything about the actual victims? I heard about the officer who will be traumatized. The drunk driver who needs to take responsibility.. well my condolences to the victims of the crash..

[@gerrywhelan5761]

"Drinking and driving don't mix" really, god I learn something every day, those TV stations are a mind of information 🙄!

[@heavymetal1069]

There's no excuse to drink and drive so many other ways to get home.

[@megclifton6692]

We get that when we are sober duh

[@ronaldminniefield2650]

Man it was 3am driving a truck coming home this fool was in the wrong lane crazy u just can't drive anymore and you have to always be on alert

[@Carlos-wx2tc]

When it became obvious the wrong-way vehicle wasn't going to stop, the cop should've gotten ahead of it and brake-checked him. Better him being rear-ended than someone else being hit head-on. He will have to live with a fatality he miserably failed to prevent.

[@ruthiesmith6770]

THANK YOU

[@LIL_Dave1964]

Instead of letting repeat drunk drivers out of jail, we need to impose stiffer penalties like 1 year jail, 10 years probation, registration as a DUI offender, at least 5 years revocation of driving privileges, all while going to therapy at least once a month.......

[@kdemarco2010]

This seems to be happening ALL the time now! Its so crazy. I see a new video of this kinda thing every day. How is this happening so often

[@jayjaynella4539]

Especially the mandated test injection of an untested liquid.

[@corinne2721]

It always seems the drunk people live and the innocent people die 😢...take their licenses forever, prayers for the deceased and family 😔🙏

[@spacecowboy1438]

Didn't a state trooper kill a mom the other day while chasing a car into the wrong lane on a highway last week? Of course the cops all laughed until they heard it was their brother blue that died too.

[@christopherrobinson3290]

Willful and wanton ignorance should not be considered and/or be umbrella’d under “oh they were intoxicated”. Many rational decisions must be made to execute such a dangerous move and actually succeed at hitting and killing someone. Therefore cases like this should be simply treated as, at the very least Felony second degree murder/manslaughter - as i have trouble finding a different reasoning and lesser charge - again, based on the circumstances of how someone finds themselves driving on the wrong side of an active freeway.