DRIVER GOING THE WRONG WAY ON THE HIGHWAY KILLS FOUR TEENS
Four teenagers were recently killed and another critically injured after another car struck them head-on. According to Santa Fe County deputies in New Mexico, a driver of a jeep going the wrong way on the highway, the driver of the jeep was headed west in the eastbound lanes of Old Vegas Highway on mile marker number 5 near Santa Fe when it crashed into the teenager’s Subaru shortly after midnight Sunday.
The lone survivor of the Subaru was taken to the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque after the accident. The police officer who arrived on the scene after the incident noticed that the driver of the jeep exhibited signs of being intoxicated. The jeep driver has one previous DWI on his record, which occurred in 2001. In addition to 4 counts of vehicular homicide and one count of great bodily injury by vehicle, additional charges are pending the outcome of blood-alcohol tests.
It is shameful that in these types of cases, the drunk driver of the vehicle at fault escapes with his life while five families have been shaken due to the deaths of four girls and the severe injuries of another.
