WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say six people have been killed in a crash caused by a wrong-way driver on a Northern California highway.

 

The California Highway Patrol says it received calls around 12:30 a.m. Sunday about a Chevrolet heading south in northbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Woodland.

 

The CHP says the 2013 Chevrolet with only the female driver inside collided with a Dodge carrying five people about 20 miles northwest of Sacramento. Both vehicles were engulfed in flames.

 

Officials say the woman in the Chevrolet and everyone in the Dodge - three women and two men - died at the scene.

 

Investigators will try to determine whether alcohol or drugs played a role.

 

The Sacramento Bee reports the Yolo County Coroner's office will release the identities of the victims.

Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. </s> WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say six people have been killed in a crash caused by a wrong-way driver on a Northern California highway.

The California Highway Patrol says it received calls around 12:30 a.m. Sunday about a Chevrolet heading south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Woodland.

The CHP says the 2013 Chevrolet with only the female driver inside collided with a Dodge carrying five people about 20 miles northwest of Sacramento. Both vehicles were engulfed in flames.

Officials say the woman in the Chevrolet and everyone in the Dodge — three women and two men — died at the scene.

Investigators will try to determine whether alcohol or drugs played a role. </s> Authorities say six people have been killed in a crash caused by a wrong-way driver on a Northern California highway.

WOODLAND, Calif. — Authorities say six people have been killed in a crash caused by a wrong-way driver on a Northern California highway.

The California Highway Patrol says it received calls around 12:30 a.m. Sunday about a Chevrolet heading south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Woodland.

The CHP says the 2013 Chevrolet with only the female driver inside collided with a Dodge carrying five people about 20 miles northwest of Sacramento. Both vehicles were engulfed in flames.

Officials say the woman in the Chevrolet and everyone in the Dodge — three women and two men — died at the scene.

Investigators will try to determine whether alcohol or drugs played a role.

The Sacramento Bee reports the Yolo County Coroner’s office will release the identities of the victims. </s> WOODLAND — The California Highway Patrol says six people were killed early Sunday morning along Interstate 5 near Woodland.

Around 12:30 a.m. officers got reports of a wrong way driver, traveling southbound in northbound lanes.

Investigators say the wrong way car, described as a Chevrolet, hit a Dodge in the same lane. Both vehicles were on fire when officers responded.

The woman in the Chevrolet and the three women and two men in the Dodge were killed. The two drivers were the only people wearing seat belts at the time of the crash.

Investigators say it’s unclear if alcohol or drugs played a role in the crash.

Anyone with information about the crash as asked to contact the California Highway Patrol Woodland office at (530) 662-4685.

The victims in the crash have not been identified. </s> AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Six people were killed on Sunday when a vehicle going the wrong direction on a northern California highway collided with another vehicle, causing a fire that engulfed both cars, police said.

The female driver of the 2013 Chevrolet going the wrong way on Interstate 5 as well as the five people in the other vehicle, a 2013 Dodge, were all pronounced dead at the scene, the California Highway Patrol said.

There were three females and two males in the Dodge. The names of those killed have not yet been released.

Authorities said they have not yet determined if drugs or alcohol had played a role in the crash that took place in Woodland, about 85 miles (135 km) northeast of San Francisco. </s> A wrong way driver caused a car crash that killed six people in northern California, with both cars bursting into flames.

The California Highway Patrol got calls around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday of a Chevy driving south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 5.

When they arrived to investigate, the Chevy had collided head on with a Dodge traveling northbound.

The crash occurred in the Yolo County, northwest of Sacramento.

Both vehicles caught fire after the crash, police said.

The driver of the Chevrolet, an unidentified woman, died in the crash.

The other car involved, a Dodge, was carrying five passengers, three women and two men. All five passed away in the collision.

There's no word at present whether alcohol or drugs were involved in the crash, but police are investigating the cause. </s> Six people have died after two cars collided on Interstate 5 just after midnight Sunday.

According to CHP Woodland, witnesses saw a Chevrolet driving the wrong way on I-5. When deputies arrived they found the two cars.

Investigators believe the Chevrolet collided with a Dodge while going the wrong direction on the interstate. After colliding, both cars burst into flames, killing the driver of the Chevrolet and 5 people inside the Dodge.

It is unclear if drugs or alcohol were a factor. </s> Five people in a car traveling up California’s Interstate 5 just after midnight on Sunday morning had their journey and their lives ended in a fiery head-on collision with a car driving the wrong way, reports KCRA.

The woman driving the Chevrolet south on the freeway’s northbound lanes also died, leaving six dead in total at the nightmarish scene.

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The California Highway Patrol said it began receiving calls of a wrong-way driver around 12:30 a.m. But by the time investigating officers arrived, the Chevrolet had plowed into a Dodge car. Officers found the two cars engulfed in flames outside the small town of Yolo.

Witness Jeremy Morgan was one of the first on the scene after emergency vehicles had arrived. He snapped a few pictures and shared them on his Facebook page.

“Everything was glowing from the fire and the emergency lights,” Morgan told KCRA. “So it was just this big flickering show. It looked like fireworks going off.”

The Dodge was carrying three women and two men, none of whom have been identified. The woman driving the Chevrolet was likewise not identified. The Yolo County Coroner’s Office is closed on Sundays, so the bodies will be identified, at the earliest, on Monday.

Whether drugs or alcohol were involved in crash is not yet known to authorities, but police are investigating the crash.

The burning vehicles left a white residue on the pavement that became visible at daybreak.

“That is very sad,” Sam Diaz, a resident of nearby Woodland, told KCRA. “It’s heartbreaking when you hear something like that about people getting hurt like that, especially if people are driving the wrong way.”

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In California, a pilot program was initiated last year to identify devices, such as blinking LED lights and video surveillance, that could potentially reduce the number of wrong-way drivers. In fact, the Sacramento region was picked for the program because it has the highest number of deadly crashes in the state, KCRA reported.

Seventeen off-ramps in Yolo County and Sacramento County were selected as part of the pilot project. However, the devices installed are located only along Interstate 80 and Highway 50. Interstate 5 does not have any of the technologies being tested. </s> WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police say a man driving the wrong way on an interstate highway crashed into a car, killing five people. Minutes later in the same area, a man stole a police cruiser and struck seven vehicles, injuring several people while driving the wrong way.

It was unclear if the same person was responsible for all of the crashes. But police apprehended 36-year-old Steven Bourgoin at the scene early Sunday on Interstate 89 in Williston.

Local media outlets are reporting the dead were teenagers.

Police say dispatchers began receiving reports just before midnight that a vehicle was traveling north in the south lane of the interstate. They say the first car struck burst into flames.

Authorities say none of the injuries caused by the police cruiser appeared to be life-threatening. </s> A school co-principal says the five teenagers killed in a crash caused by a wrong-way driver in Williston, Vermont, were all high school juniors.

Harwood Union Middle and High School co-Principal Amy Rex says four of the five attended Harwood Union High School in Duxbury. She says the fifth victim is from the community, but attends a different school.

Rex says the deaths were "an unprecedented tragedy" and that all were vibrant members of the community with bright futures.

Police say the victims were hit by a wrong-way driver early Sunday morning. The car hit was found in flames.

A man who allegedly stole a police cruiser from the crash scene is facing charges, but police haven't said if he was driving the wrong-way vehicle.

Vermont State Police say a man driving the wrong way on an interstate highway crashed into a car, killing five people. Minutes later in the same area, a man stole a police cruiser and struck seven vehicles, injuring several people while driving the wrong way.

It was unclear if the same person was responsible for all of the crashes. But police apprehended 36-year-old Steven Bourgoin at the scene early Sunday on Interstate 89 in Williston.

Police say dispatchers began receiving reports just before midnight that a vehicle was north in the south lane of the interstate. They say the first car struck burst into flames.

Authorities say none of the injuries caused by the police cruiser appeared to be life-threatening.

Vermont State Police say five people have been killed after a wrong-way driver caused several crashes on Interstate 89 in Williston.

Vermont State Police Capt. Mike Henry tells the Burlington Free Press (http://bfpne.ws/2dWOKFk ) the crash happened early Sunday morning. Henry says a man was northbound in the southbound lane on the interstate between exits 11 and 12 when he collided with another car.

Williston police arrived to investigate, and the man exited his truck and stole a police cruiser and headed south toward Richmond. When Richmond police attempted to intercept him, the suspect made a U-turn and again headed north in southbound lanes.
Six people are killed in a head-on collision and a subsequent fire caused by a single-driver vehicle going the wrong way on Interstate 5 north of Woodland, California.