One person is dead and several others hospitalized after police say a wrong way driver collided with others along the Dallas North Tollway in Dallas early Monday morning. The North Texas Tollway Authority, which manages the Dallas North Tollway tells us it’s taken a number of steps to prevent wrong way driving. Still — crashes continue despite measures that some say could save lives. Allie Spillyards has the story.
One person is dead and five others are injured after a crash in Dallas on Monday morning.
The crash involving an 18-wheeler and two passenger vehicles happened at 1:27 a.m., according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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The crash, DPS says, was caused by a driver traveling in the wrong direction and occurred in the southbound lanes of the Dallas North Tollway just north of Royal Lane.
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A passenger vehicle was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of the Dallas North Tollway when it side-swiped an 18-wheeler, then struck a passenger vehicle head-on, DPS said.
According to DPS, one person was pronounced dead at the scene, and five others were transported to different hospitals with critical injuries.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was not hurt.
Micah Peterson was heading home from Dallas when he came upon the devastating scene on the other side of the tollway.
Two cars were on fire, he said.
“I just seen a lot in my life, I think it’s probably the most heartbreaking things I’ve seen,” said the still-shaken young man. “One of the girls was banging on the window. She was asking for... I saw her give up. I seen her put her head back. I don’t know if it was the smoke that got in her lungs and made her do that or she just gave up.”
Peterson says he tried to get out to help but was not allowed to, so he captured a trooper breaking a window and pulling a woman from a burning car.
“It was the victim’s vehicle that caught on fire,” said Sgt. De La Cerda.
The suspected wrong-way driver survived but was rushed to the hospital with critical injuries, said De La Cerda.
When asked by 온라인카지노사이트 5 for an update on the incident and the people involved, De La Cerda replied Monday afternoon, saying there are no new updates to provide.
As of Monday afternoon, DPS also would not say where the wrong-way driver entered the tollway, but did confirm receiving multiple calls reporting the wrong-way driver.
온라인카지노사이트 5 found the nearest ramp the person may have entered the tollway is Northwest Highway, which has four signs, including two with flashing lights, alerting drivers they’re going the wrong way.
Over the years, NTTA has installed several countermeasures in an effort to cut down on wrong-way driving crashes, including: thermal detection, roadway sensors, lowered signs, “Wrong Way” and “Do Not Enter” signs at ramps (some with flashing lights) and raised reflective pavement markers.
DPS is leading the investigation.
While DPS is also not yet revealing whether the wrong-way driver was driving under the influence, NTTA says in general, wrong-way drivers often begin as impaired drivers that then become wrong-way drivers,’ said NTTA spokesman Michael Rey.
The spokesman for DPS said the agency would provide vehicle information and publicly identify the victims once the next of kin was notified.
The crash comes nearly three years after a similar wrong-way collision claimed the life of Michael Jackson. The Wylie man was on his way home to his wife, Wendy.
“I have to relive it every single day. It’s not something that goes away," said Wendy Jackson.
On that night in 2022, directional sensors and cameras along the President George Bush Turnpike detected the wrong-way driver.
"We have a wrong-way driver in your city. It’s going northbound in the southbound lanes," dispatchers said. "We’re just tracking them on camera right now. They’re passing Jupiter."
Texas State Troopers raced to locate the car. But before troopers could locate the driver, she slammed into Jackson head-on.
An attorney assisting the Jackson family obtained videos and records from the NTTA that revealed the driver who hit Jackson was driving in the wrong direction for about eight minutes before crashing.
“Everyone knew there was a wrong way driver except the people who were in harm’s way," said Wendy.
She's spent the last two and a half years advocating for the Michael Alert, working alongside a team of friends who once worked under Jackson on a technology innovation team at AT&T's headquarters in Dallas. They're now scattered across some of the nation's biggest tech companies.
Using an existing federal system -- FEMA's "Integrated Public Alert and Warning System," or -- the Michael Alert would notify drivers traveling in freeway lanes where a wrong-way driver has been detected.
Last year, TxDOT told 온라인카지노사이트5 that engineers were reviewing the technology.
NTTA said it's testing its own geo-fenced alert system.
Still, neither has a rollout date.
So far this year, 20 wrong-way crashes have been reported to TxDOT.
Though Wendy Jackson's frustrated to see another, she’s not giving up.
"His perspective on life was just... something good has to come out of this," said Wendy Jackson.
