2 killed, 4 injured in wrong-way driver crash on I-5 - KRCRTV.COM
Two drivers were killed early Sunday after a wrong-way driver on Interstate 5 slammed head-on into another vehicle. According to a news release from the California Highway Patrol, the collision happened at 12:53 a. m. on Interstate 5, just north of the Tehama Avenue exit south of Red Bluff in the Gerber area. The CHP received a 911 call reporting a wrong-way driver headed southbound in the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 from Flores Avenue in Tehama County, south of Red Bluff. The vehicle was described as a black BMW sedan. A short time later, dispatchers received another call, reporting a head-on collision on northbound Interstate 5 just north of the Tehama Avenue overcrossing in the Gerber area. The drivers of both vehicles, a 2002 BMW 530 and a 2000 Ford Expedition SUV, were trapped. Due to the fire damage to the BMW, no information was immediately available about the woman who was driving the BMW. The driver of the Ford Expedition was a 74-year-old woman from Milpitas. CHP officers and deputies helped remove four passengers from the Ford Expedition, including two children, ages 10 and 7. Those passengers included Rex Galasinao, 45 of Milpitas, who suffered major injuries and was taken to Mercy Medical Center in... Another passenger, Annalyn Galasinao, 44 of Milpitas, suffered moderate injures, and was taken to Saint Elizabeth Hospital in Red Bluff. Source: www.krcrtv.com
