There were some terrifying moments on a section of Highway 101 in the Tri-Counties, when a driver drove for several miles on the wrong side of the freeway.
It happened at around 2 a.m. Saturday in Ventura County. CHP investigators say they received reports of a car headed northbound on the southbound side of the 101 near Oxnard Boulevard. Some CHP cars ran a traffic break, to try to clear the highway.
A CHP unit spotted the wrong way driver, and tried to clip the rear of it to stop the vehicle. The effort failed. Moments later, the wrong-way driver approached a southbound car. The driver of that car swerved off the highway, and crashed. Fortunately, the driver wasn’t seriously injured.
CHP officers say the wrong way driver then tried to cross the center median of Highway 101 at the Highway 33 interchange in Ventura, and became stuck. They say they arrested Adrian Garcia of Ventura on a DUI charge, and for driving on the wrong side of a highway causing injury.
