The problem with wrong-way driving, you might guess, mostly lies with driver error.
Baffling occurrences on our highways are nothing new. We see them every day. But recently there seems to be a particular string of incomprehensible events happening when drivers somehow manage to enter major highways going in the wrong direction. It’s weird and the results most often are catastrophic.
In April Surrey RCMP attended a crash scene on Highway 99 near Highway 91 where a Ford sedan going the wrong way smashed into a Mercedes causing life-threatening injuries to the 68-year-old Ford driver. The highway was closed for nearly 12 hours. Depending on the study, it is estimated that 50-75% of wrong-way crashes involved alcohol or drug intoxication. They mostly occur on weekends between midnight and 3 a.m.
The chances of meeting a wrong-way driver are very small but continually practising defensive driver techniques are the best way to keep those odds in your favour. Travelling in the right hand lane as much as possible is also a good defensive move in case of a wrong-way encounter. Remember when a wrong-way driver pulls onto a multi-lane highway - heading in the opposite and wrong way - their right-hand lane is now your left-hand lane. By travelling in the right-hand lane you have a much greater chance of escape with the roadway shoulder than you would have with a centre median on your left.
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