Wrong-Way Driver Charged With DUI

A 23-year-old Tampa woman faces DUI charges after law enforcement agencies received calls about a wrong-way driver on the Veterans Expressway early Thursday morning.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the woman was heading southbound in the northbound lanes around 1:26 a.m. Tampa Police pulled her over at the intersection of State Road 60, an email to media from highway patrol Sgt. Steve Gaskins stated.

Once on the scene, a trooper conducted a DUI investigation and placed Megan Ashley Luginsland of Tampa under arrest, Gaskins noted. Luginsland provided a breath sample of 0.123, which is well over the state’s legal limit.

“Luginsland indicated that after leaving a bar on Dale Mabry Highway she entered SR-589 in the wrong direction; she exited and then re-entered again in the wrong direction at an unknown location,” Gaskins wrote.

Luginsland was being booked into the Hillsborough County Jail Thursday morning.

Photo courtesy of the Florida Highway Patrol

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