COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A 35-year-old Coldwater woman was arrested Friday morning following a crash on I-69, where she was travelling northbound in the southbound lanes.
According to police, witnesses called 9-1-1 to report a reckless driver, heading southbound on I-69 approaching the City of Coldwater at about 12:30 a.m. Witnesses reported the vehicle ran off the road into a ditch, before driving back onto the interstate.
A Coldwater Police Officer responded to the area and found the suspect travelling northbound in the southbound lanes near the US-12 interchange. The officer activated his lights and siren and pursued the vehicle northbound at about 45 MPH, using his emergency lights to warn oncoming traffic about the wrong-way driver.
A southbound tractor-trailer driven by a 58-year-old man from Sterling Heights, Michigan, saw the wrong way vehicle and patrol car with emergency lights approaching and attempted to stop to avoid a collision.
The suspect, driving a 2012 GMC Acadia, drove head on into the tractor trailer near the State Street overpass. The driver of the Acadia was treated and released from Insight Hospital and Medical Center of Coldwater.
She was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated and lodged at the Branch County Jail.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured.
Southbound I-69 was shut down at the Jonesville Road exit, near mile marker 16, for over an hour while emergency crews worked to clear the roadway.
Coldwater Police were assisted at the scene by the Michigan State Police, Branch County Sheriff’s Office, Quincy Police Department, Coldwater Fire Department, and LifeCare Ambulance.
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