Police: Drunken Driver Crashes Head-On Into Rig, Closing I-71 For Hours

Wednesday August 8, 2012 1:54 AM
UPDATED: Wednesday August 8, 2012 7:51 AM

Interstate 71 was closed for hours early Wednesday morning after a wrong way driver crashed near Polaris Parkway.

Police said that a 21-year-old driver crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer around 1:30 a.m. Officers said that they suspected the female driver was drunk.

The driver, whose identity was not released, was taken to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. She was expected to survive.

The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured. The road was reopened around 4 a.m.

Police said that the woman faces OVI charges.

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