Fatal head-on crash on I-696: Footage of victim caught on camera

A wrong-way driver slammed into the victim on I-696 Friday morning. Police say the driver is believed to have been intoxicated and was driving on a suspended license.

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[angelav]

Smh....the drunk drivers always survive...stop drinking and driving you always kill the innocent people...put her in jail

[LibraLuvStyle]

This is how my parents were killed by a drunk driver back in 1997. Except the drunk driver died in the crash too.
My heartfelt condolences to the victims family and friends. I’m so sorry this happened to you all💐
I hope the drunk driver in this situation spends a very long time in prison.

[celia]

How many deaths will it take before stronger punishment is given to ppl driving under the influence? If you're drunk and you kill somebody it should be an automatic life sentence.

[DRAdra]

People like that don't deserve to see the light of day they do it on purpose.

[gowifb]

Just a tip for everyone that at night try to not be in the left lane of travel if possible as that is where most of these wrong way drunk idiots are going to be since they think they are on a two way road in the right lane. At one point on 3 consecutive visits to my family over the course of a few months I came upon wrong way drivers on a divided multi lane highway. Two of them passed me and one had just crashed and killed someone. All of them had been in the left lane.

[keithjohnsonsr]

I’ve been hit by a wrong way driver and survived. I feel for the family having to go through this!

[johnneal]

Never fails. It's ALWAYS the person that causes this that walks away while others don't.

[ruelpile]

It always seems like the drunk driver never dies in these accidents.

[nathan.brazil]

Almost never is this a first offense. Usually they have multiple DUI's previously and were not stopped by the system. Now an innocent person is dead because of the failures of the Injustice system.
If they actually started putting these people in prison for extended periods after the 2nd DUI it would go a long way to actually stopping these senseless tragedies.

[deborahfenley]

Stiffer penalties for DUI drivers especially if it involves a fatality. Prayers for the family 🙏

[REALTOR_MI]

The person responsible for this does not deserve to see the light of day.

[sarahdelozier]

Makes me sad that the terrible people causing this to live and the unsuspecting innocent ones die? It is just a sad outcome 😔

[radiohobbyist]

This will continue to happen as long as our society tolerates it. The punishment for drunk driving isn't serious enough AT ALL!!! 😡🤷

[irollin]

Personal responsibility indeed. RIP to the innocent victims and rot in prison to the driver

[CookieB]

I’m glad it was not shown, BUT exactly where was the “footage of the victim caught on camera”???

[mariacardo]

The good die young and the POS people make it through. Its sickening. I hope they are haunted by this for the rest of their lives.

[christopherroth]

I can not say this enough. I work as a FF/EMT. I have cleaned up these scenes too many times. Driving intoxicated (drugs / alcohol) is the most irresponsible, careless, selfish thing anyone can do. If you take yourself out driving intoxicated...good riddance to bad trash. If you take out someone else while driving intoxicated and live, you should be thrown under the jail in a very dark hole for the rest of your life. If you die, then bury you in a gunny sack in an unmarked grave to be forgotten!

I have NO compassion for the intoxicated driver! NONE AT ALL!!

[ChangingAperture]

Lock that driver up for life! Period. If you take a life while being so blatantly negligent then you deserve life in prison without parole. The other driver will never get their life back so neither do you.

[Hothenrik]

Why is it the innocent victims always die due to the stupidity of others?? This is disgusting beyond words! It needs to be the other way!!😡

[roxiefern]

My deepest condolences to the family of this innocent victim 🙏 💔 I have zero tolerance of drunk drivers as I'm a family member who suffered the tragic loss of my 23yo brother 😢