GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A woman is in the hospital with serious injuries after a wrong-way crash on US-131 Saturday morning in Grand Rapids.
Michigan State Police say the 25-year-old woman from Wyoming was headed north in the the southbound lanes of US-131 when she collided with two vehicles driving in the correct direction. The crash happened around 2:15 a.m.
Investigators suspect the crash was caused by drunk driving.
The other vehicles involved were a tow truck and another passenger vehicle. The drivers in those cars suffered minor injuries.
This is the latest in a number of wrong-way crashes on US-131. Forty people have died as a result of wrong-way traffic crashes from 2017-2021. Many have involved impaired driving.
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The Michigan Department of Transportation has tried several methods to prevent drivers from getting on the freeway in the wrong direction, and alerting other drivers when a vehicle is headed the wrong way.
