Wrong-way detection systems continue to roll out across the state in hot spots for wrong-way drivers.
This weekend, another driver was killed in a wrong-way crash in Waterbury, bringing the total to 13 wrong-way crash deaths this year.
“Just a usual commute back home, just getting dark,” Mark Vecchitto said of his commute from work a week ago.
He was driving along Interstate 95 around the Westbrook-Old Saybrook line when he experienced something he could only describe as terrifying.
“At first I couldn’t process what was going on, like ‘why are headlights coming at me?’ And then I realized, this is a wrong-way driver,” Vecchitto said.
He came extremely close to a head-on collision, only avoiding the oncoming car thanks to a trucker in the lane next to him who let him move over.
“This guy went right by my passenger window I mean, wow … reaction was like, ‘you don’t even know …’ I couldn’t even process what was going …