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Wrong Way Drunk Driver Injures Two On I-70 In Wayne County

Wrong way interstate driving accidents occur more often than you might think in Indiana. While many people wonder how it is possible to drive the wrong way on a major interstate or highway with a large median, there are a number of ways that these Indiana car accidents take place. One of the major reasons for wrong way interstate accidents is drunk driving.

This was certainly the case last Thursday, when a New Castle, Indiana, man driving a red pickup truck entered Interstate 70 going the wrong way and collided with two different vehicles. The man, 42-year-old Archie Napier, was allegedly drunk at the time of the I-70 wrong way accident.

Indiana State Police received a call of a wrong way driver on I-70 near the 149 mile marker at approximately 10:50 PM. By the time an officer arrived at the scene, the driver of the truck had fled the accident scene, two cars were damaged, and a tractor-trailer was damaged after being hit by debris. Napier was found hiding behind a nearby building and arrested. Napier and one of the drivers of the other two cars were treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening car accident injuries.

Napier has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident causing serious bodily injury, operating while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury, operating while intoxicated with a blood-alcohol content of .15 percent or higher, reckless driving, and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

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