Wrong-way driver nabbed travelling 200 km/h
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 | 5:28 PM ET
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Police in southwestern Ontario made a daring and dramatic takedown of a vehicle travelling the wrong way at 200 km/h on the country's busiest highway.
Ontario Provincial Police were dispatched at 2 a.m. Monday to stop a 1996 Dodge Ram pickup truck travelling west in the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 near Lakeshore.
Police said the vehicle was driving toward oncoming traffic.
Essex County officers positioned their cruisers across the road and laid spike belts on the highway.
The vehicle slowed and then stopped in front of the roadblock but the driver refused to get out of the vehicle, forcing police to remove her themselves.
"If not for the quick and professional actions of the responding officers, this situation could have been more severe, with possible fatal results," Essex OPP Sgt. Rick Tonial said in a release Tuesday.
A 37-year-old Windsor, Ont., woman is charged with impaired driving, dangerous driving and driving a vehicle with a blood alcohol level over 80 milligrams.
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