Wrong way driver causes serious head-on collision on interstate, Schenectady NY
TrafficA wrong-way driver caused a serious head-on collision on Interstate 890 near Exit 25 in Schenectady, New York. Two people were trapped and had to be removed from the vehicle. Both were taken to the hospital. The crash seriously damaged the vehicles involved.
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Transcript:
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The day begins,
00:02
although Mike began at 4.15 this morning with extricating two people out of a car,
00:12
third one self-extricated.
00:14
Oh,
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wow, where was that at?
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890 right coming off exit 25.
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The individual was going the wrong direction on 890 and hit head on right there at the coming off.
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He came off, went over,
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you know, where you get off 25 to go on 890,
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where they merge.
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coming off the freeway on to 890.
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They hit head on right there.
00:57
Oh my gosh.
01:00
Was he, I'm guessing drunk? Because there's no way unless you're maybe getting off work and you're dead tired.
01:09
They were, I don't think they were drunk, I think,
01:13
well, it might have been, I don't know, but it was either drinking or under the influence badly.
01:20
Him and his girlfriend got into a squabble, so they decided,
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oh, let's go door dashing.
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So they went door dashing at 4 in the morning.
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Door dashing at 4 a.m.
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I didn't know that was a thing that early.
01:38
Unbelievable.
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And instead, yeah, they don't longer can door dash because their car is probably totaled.
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Yeah, it's just stupid.
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Unbelievable.
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And the poor soul, I was getting off the throughway, doing nothing but having a normal day, probably,
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I hope that person's all right.
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They were both taken to the hospital.
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Both engines of the vehicle were completely destroyed or broke the firewall.
02:04
Oh my gosh, that's terrible.
02:13
Lucky someone's not dead, to be honestly.
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That's how bad it was.
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Yep.
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What an idiot.
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I'm over there, he's getting sobriety checked and I'm like,
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what an idiot.
02:32
Wow, so I'm guessing they're both like in their 20s then.
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Uh,
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yeah, maybe, I would say they're 20s, yeah.
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For sure, they were definitely younger, that's for sure.
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Yep.
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Then,
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of course,
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they never get hurt because they're so stoned, right?
02:56
They didn't get it.
02:57
The other two went to the hospital, those were the two we had to extricate out of the vehicle.
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Yeah, because when you're that messed up, and, man, I'm telling you, it's so bizarre,
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you're so screwed up,
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and your body's so relaxed, where the other people they saw it coming so they kept straight up, that's what did all the damage, yeah, I get it.
03:21
Man, I don't, was there like a small odor of reefer on them, too?
03:27
I didn't get that close, I didn't ask the guys that,
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because he self-exercated the two of them out of their car.
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The car that they were in a like minivan type thing.
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And the other people weren't in Mercedes,
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newer Mercedes,
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so that's really got a really high safety on the scale.
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So that car probably saved their lives.
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I'm telling you, the motor was destroyed, and like I said, it broke the firewall.
04:14
Wow, that's crazy.
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Unbelievable.
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I just, I shake my head when I hear about accidents like this.
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I mean,
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there's a reason for it, and I don't know what it is yet.
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But I hope those people make it in the hospital and they're not too seriously screwed up.
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