Trooper uses car to stop wrong-way DUI on Highway 3 - Kitsap Sun

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Andrew Binion Kitsap Sun

Published 2:37 PM EDT Sep 19, 2020

A suspected drunk driver who drove the wrong way onto Highway 3 Friday night was stopped after crashing head-first into a Washington State Patrol trooper.

The wreck caused far less damage and injury than possible because the trooper, Alan R. Dixon, came to a complete stop on the freeway near the Chico Way interchange and the suspected drunken driver apparently reacted to his emergency lights and slowed down before impact.

“It was nose to nose, straight on, but he was able to come to a stop,” said Trooper Jessica Schob, a spokeswoman for the patrol. “Thankfully he was in the right place at the right time and she slowed down for his lights.”

Dixon sustained minor injuries in the crash and was taken to the hospital, but Schob said he did not break any bones.

Schob stopped a wrong-way driver on the highway July 10 without any fatalities or major injuries a short distance from the wreck Friday night. The driver in that crash was also suspected of being drunk.

Just before the wreck, reported at 8:38 p.m., Dixon heard a report of an erratic driver on Chico Way who had just left a bar. He was intending to search for the car, Schob said.

A short time later the drunken driving suspect, a 33-year-old Bremerton woman driving a 2017 Jeep Renegade, turned off the roadway and began driving the wrong way onto the northbound lanes of the freeway, catching Dixon’s eye, Schob said.

Once on the roadway she turned into the inside lane where Dixon was driving.

Schob said the impact was at a low speed and the woman’s airbag did not deploy.

The woman was booked into the Kitsap County Jail for investigation of drunken driving and harassment, according to the online jail roster.

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