The driver of a second-generation Chevy Blazer nearly caused a head-on collision with two cars after driving the wrong way on I-70 near Golden, Colorado, new dashcam footage shows.
The dashcam video, which was submitted to the ViralHog channel on YouTube this week, shows a Dark Cherry Red Metallic second-gen Chevy Blazer nearly causing a head-on crash with three other vehicles as they traveled the wrong way down the interstate. The filmer of the footage submitted the following description along with the short 30-second clip:
“Was driving down west I-70 with three friends behind me heading to some hot springs when a car coming head-on almost hit all four of us forcing us to swerve out of the way.”
The filmer was lucky this wreckless Chevy Blazer driver didn’t hit them, as a head-on impact at even the relatively low speeds seen in the video can cause serious injury or worse. We couldn’t find any other news reports on this wrong-way driver, so we’re assuming (and hoping) that they managed to successfully exit the interstate shortly after this near miss and re-enter going the proper direction.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, wrong-way driver crashes kill 300 to 400 people in the United States each year on average. This represents only 1 percent of the total number of traffic-related fatalities that occur annually, however because wrong-way driver crashes often involve head-on or opposite direction sideswipe crashes at high speeds, they tend to be relatively more severe than other types of crashes, the DOT says.
Check out the video embedded below to see just how close this wrong way driver was to taking out an entire row of cars.
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Quite scary. We hear about major accidents out here in LA (Ca) all the time where someone (normally at 2 or 3am in the morning) goes the wrong way and ends up killing someone. I think they need to install one-way spikes that would flatten all the tires on a car trying to enter the wrong way of a freeway. Maybe just do it on the ones that have the highest rate of this happening??
On another note close to this: My CT4 has now given me a warning 2 times about a wrong way driver!! The first time I had no idea and it scared the heck out of me and I was able to exit the freeway (405) only a mile from where the driver was coming towards me. The second time happened just this past Sunday and I was able to fully read it before the warning disappeared. This time it told me the driver was about 20 miles ahead and the main exit/street name. This is a really great feature and I’m trying to find out more about it. I have no idea if it’s tied into the satellite radio or what.
No more XM traffic in Infotainment 3, it comes from OnStar Connected Navigation via the cell network. I think HERE is the provider but don’t quote me on that.
Thanks Sam. It’s something I’m looking into because if it’s tied into the XM, I would pay the monthly fee to keep it just for that alone.
“Chevy Blazer Almost Causes Wreck Driving on Wrong Side of the Road…”
Dang. I thought it was the driver doing something stupid, not the vehicle.
Whatever precipitated it….it doesn’t take much to realize YOUR GOING THE WRONG WAY, does it? And if the driver just continues to maneuver into oncoming traffic….maybe they should be driving at all. Or, maybe to much cabin cannabis smoke???
DUI/drugs is around 2/3 of wrong-way drivers. Old people make up around 15%. So yeah, odds are heavy that they shouldn’t be driving.