Wrong-Way Drunken Driver On I-293, I-93 Arrested In Concord: New Hampshire State Police

CONCORD, NH — A man from Bow faces charges after being accused of wrong-way drunken driving on two Interstates on Sunday morning, according to New Hampshire State Police.

Just before 12:45 a.m., state police dispatch began receiving reports of a wrong-way driver traveling north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 293 near Mile Marker 7.4 in Manchester in a black Jeep Wrangler. More reports, Tyler Dumont, the public information officer for state police, said, came in as the driver continued north onto I-93 into Hooksett.

“A single-vehicle crash with non-life-threatening injuries south of the Hooksett tolls was also reported,” he said, “after another driver attempted to avoid a head-on collision with the wrong-way driver and went off the road.”

The driver continued into Bow and Concord and was eventually stopped by a Troop D trooper in Concord on Interstate 93, just north of Exit 12S.

The driver, Brian Kunst, 49, of Bow, was arrested after a roadside investigation on reckless conduct with a deadly weapon and driving while intoxicated. He was processed and held at the county jail. Kunst is scheduled to appear in Concord District Court on Monday.

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