Another wrong way crash at I-45 and Hardy toll road (Houston: home, living)

[Dopo]

Is there any way to stop this from happening?

3 killed in wrong-way crash after birthday celebration

Jackie and Patrick Delane spent their last hours together line-dancing in The Woodlands, surrounded by friends and family in a joyous early celebration of Patrick's 50th birthday. The Spring couple hit up a popular wine lounge and a trendy bar and bistro, making jokes and living it up into the early hours Sunday morning.
When they all finally called it a night after a meal at IHOP, Jackie and Patrick were the first to leave, headed home for some shut eye before a golf outing that afternoon.
They never made it.
Just before 4 a.m., the couple was headed southbound on Interstate 45 when a black Dodge Charger driving the wrong way crashed into their Mercedes at more than 100 mph, police said.
The Charger burst into flames upon impact, and a wrecker driver doused the blaze but was unable to save the driver, 32-year-old Allan Bonilla of Houston.
The Delanes' Mercedes careened off into a cement barrier, tearing apart the front end of the vehicle.
Jeanette Crawford, Jackie's sister, was driving home from the IHOP when she spotted the wreckage along the side of the highway.


The stretch of I-45 north of Houston where Patrick and Jackie died has been particularly deadly as the site of two fatal head-on crashes in three days in 2012.
That July, a Spring woman who'd been caught on videotape downing 17 shots and four beers at a bar, killed two people in a wrong-way wreck.
Less than 48 hours later, Edward Maxwell was accused of drinking 22 beers at a Woodlands bar before heading out on the road, sparking a crash that killed three.

[studiobtm]

Well we tolerate drunk driving in this country - like most countries. If the punishment was MUCH harsher then the rate of incidence would be MUCH lower. If people were caned for the first offense and executed for the second then you would see 1/10th or less of the drunk driving you see now.

I get it that alcoholism is an addiction etc. But for all of those about to flame me - I can guarantee you that if you knew another conviction would result in execution, alcohol problem or not, most people would arrange for a driver before getting plastered. I have been in many countries around the world that have extreme penalties for certain behaviors (like drug use) and they don't have problems with those behaviors. Like it or not it works. Yes those countries have other issues and I wouldn't want to live there - but the principle is sound. Unfortunately.

Side issue to Dopo: To be accurate, Trump isn't claiming that all news media is evil. He claims that certain, named, news organizations are highly biased. Big difference.

[oceangaia]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Is there any way to stop this from happening?

Stop what from happening? We don't know why or how it happened so we don't know what, if anything, could have been done to stop it.

Bad accidents? Nope. There have always been bad accidents and always will be. Technology allows mankind to subject themselves to forces far beyond what they are designed to face.

For that matter, we don't even know if it was an "accident". Maybe the Charger driver deliberately entered the wrong way for the thrill of it. Maybe the Charger driver was on a suicide mission.