Wrong-way driver on US 421, near head-on - Asheboro Courier Tribune
LIBERTY — Disaster was averted Monday morning when a driver in a van narrowly avoided a head-on collision with a sport utility vehicle traveling in the wrong direction in his lane on U. S. 421. The van driver swerved at the last moment and the... Both drivers and one passenger in each vehicle were transported to a Greensboro hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the wreck that occurred shortly after 9:35 a. m. , Vaughn said. Maria Del Perez, 37, of Liberty was northbound on the highway in the southbound lanes in a 1997 Honda CR-V, with a 9-month-old child strapped into a car seat, Vaughn said. A 911 call shortly before the crash alerted emergency personnel that there was a vehicle traveling the wrong way on the highway, Vaughn said. Whitesell told the trooper he took his eyes off the road momentarily, looked up, saw the CR-V coming at him, about 15 feet away, and swerved in an attempt to miss it. “It could’ve been a whole lot worse,” Vaughn said, “a lot more serious injuries. Perez was charged with driving the wrong way down a dual-lane highway and with having no operator’s license. Source: courier-tribune.com
