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I voted "no" but then immediately clicked on the "bad wreck in Liberty" thread and read a post by Boozer about a wrong way crash recently near my house. Doh!

I read an interesting article on this phenomenom recently. The article made the point that the vast majority of wrong-way accidents occur at night in the fast lane. The reason for this is that most wrong way drivers are drunk, they are usually driving without headlights on, and that once they get into the wrong lane, they drive fairly slow (both because of limited visibility and also because they understand that they are smashed) and hug the right side of the road (the "slow lane" from their perspective). The article, written by a highway patrolman I think, suggested that you spend as little time in the fast lane at night as possible to minimize your chances of running into one of these nearly invisible hazards.