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Wrong-way driver kills self, another person in fiery head-on crash on Rte. 1 in Saugus
By adamg on Sat, 08/31/2019 - 10:37am
State Police report a Lynn man driving south on Rte. 1 north caused a fiery crash that ended with him and a passenger of another vehicle dead and the other driver seriously injured.
State Police say that moments after somebody called 911 to report wrong-way driver Luis Gallego, 29, of Lynn, around 3:30 a.m., Gallego clipped a pickup truck then slammed headfirst into a Dodge Journey SUV.
Troopers rushed to the scene and found the sole male occupant of the wrong-way vehicle deceased inside the Impala, which caught fire, and the occupants of the Journey, a man and woman, with serious injuries.
The operator of the Journey, a 51-year-old Peabody man, was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital with serious injuries. His passenger, an adult female whose identity is not being released at this time, was transported to Melrose-Wakefield Hospital, where she was pronounced deceased.
Rte. 1 north was shut until 6 a.m., State Police say, adding their investigation continues.
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Stay in right lanes late at night
I am so sorry for the families of those who were struck while doing absolutely nothing wrong and with no chance to avoid it. For what it is worth, I have heard the advice (from a police chief) to avoid driving in the left lanes of a highway late at night because that’s where and when wrong way collisions are most likely to happen.
Like this drunk guy?
He thought he was in the right hand lane too.
Yeah, exactly.
The drunk idiots think they are in the right lane but that puts them in the actual left lane of the highway, only heading the wrong way.