Crime & Safety
1 Killed, 7 Injured In Wrong-Way Crashes On I-680
One person was killed and seven others were injured in the series of Friday night crashes.
WALNUT CREEK, CA — One person was killed and seven were injured after a wrong-way driver collided with six vehicles late Friday on Interstate Highway 680 in Walnut Creek, the California Highway Patrol said.
The crashes occurred about 11:23 p.m. when the wrong-way driver was traveling south in the northbound lanes of I-680 just north of Treat Boulevard, CHP spokesman Daniel Gilmore said Saturday.
A passenger in one of the northbound vehicles was pronounced dead at the scene, he said.
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Four other people, including the wrong-way driver, suffered major injuries and three sustained minor injuries, Gilmore said.
The woman driver of the wrong-way vehicle, a Dodge Charger, was taken to a local hospital and later determined to have been impaired at the time of the crash, the CHP said.
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She was placed under arrest and remained at the hospital for treatment, the highway patrol said.
Charges against the wrong-way driver are still being determined, Gilmore said.
All lanes of northbound I-680 were blocked until about 3:35 a.m.
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