News sources revealed that a 26-year-old man was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of I-495 outside of Wareham, when he hit another car in a head-on collision. The occupant of the other car was pronounced dead at the scene, and the 26-year-old suffered serious personal injuries.
According to news sources, the accident took place on a Saturday evening recently, at about 10:20 p.m. The 26-year-old man, from Brockton, ran directly into a car driven by a 43-year-old man who succumbed to his injuries.
The 26-year-old had to be extracted from his vehicle by the Jaws of Life. He suffered serious leg injuries and was flown to Rhode Island Hospital. Blood tests are standard procedure at many hospital emergency rooms, and so the 26-year-old may have taken a blood alcohol concentration test at that time.
The accident is apparently under investigation.
Unlike a wrong-way driver on a two-lane road, a wrong-way driver on a divided interstate is less likely to be due to random road drift. Some speculative options for a wrong-way driver's appearance on an interstate are:
Depending upon the results of the accident investigation, the 26-year-old could be facing either criminal charges or wrongful death litigation in civil court or both.
Source: WATD-FM, "Wareham: Wrong way accident kills local man," Garo Hagopian, June 17, 2012
