BGSU students on spring break involved in head on car collision on I-75 vol. wrong way

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The Bowling Green Post of highway patrol received the call of a wrong-way driver on Interstate-75 at approximately 2:15 a.m. Troopers attempted to locate the 1999 Plymouth Breeze traveling southbound in the northbound lanes, according to a press release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

The vehicle of the BGSU students, a 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix, was struck head-on. As a result of the crash, the southbound car became engulfed in flames.

The driver of the southbound vehicle, Winifred D. Lein, 69, of Perrysburg, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sophomore Christina Goyett was driving the northbound vehicle with four other BGSU students: freshman Angelica Mormile was in the front passenger seat, sophomore Kayla Somoles was in the right rear seat, junior Rebekah Blakkolb was in the rear middle and junior Sarah Hammond was in the left rear.

Blakkolb was transported to University of Toledo Medical Center where she later died as a result of her injuries. Goyett and Hammond died at the scene of the crash. Mormile and Somoles both received incapacitating injuries and were transported to St. Vincent Hospital in Toledo where they are being treated.

Goyett, Mormile and the driver of the southbound vehicle were wearing their safety belts in the front seats at the time of the crash. Blakkolb and Somoles were not wearing safety belts and it is unknown if Hammond was wearing a safety belt at the time of the crash.

The crash remains under investigation at this time

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 Staff Report

A 21-year-old Bowling Green State University student from Yellow Springs was killed in an early morning crash along with three others.

A driver going the wrong way on Interstate 75 just south of Toledo crashed head on into a car carrying five Bowling Green sorority sisters, including Sarah Hammond, 21, a 2009 graduate of Greenon High School in Clark County.  That driver and three students were killed. Two other students were injured.

"We're shocked and deeply saddened by this tragic news," said BGSU President Mary Ellen Mazey in a news release. "Our hearts go out to the families, friends and sorority sisters of these young women."

Sarah Hammond grew up on a farm south of Yellow Springs and was a 2009 graduate of Greenon High School, which she attended through an open-enrollment program that allows students to attend neighboring school districts, Greenon school officials said. 

Don Dunstan, a guidance counselor at Greenon, said she has known Hammond and her family – her parents and older sister – since Sarah was in 7[sup]th[/sup] grade.

In high school, Sarah was a “good solid student
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thats a shame my condolences to the families who have lost a loved one...
 
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!%+ happens too often. Im from Ohio and Greenon High School was in my basketball conference. THey have lost alot of kids in random car accidents. Crazy
 
well since my last post obviously didnt want to cooperate... Those are the 3 ladies that died in the crash. Driver of other car was a 69 year old woman that was driving wrong way for @ least 7miles; she died as well. Troopers tried but couldnt catch up with her. Stuff happens way too often in that area. Im from abt 30 mins north of BG and I know for a fact that wrong way drivers causing collisions have occurred in the past few years. Highways arent even confusing, people just get wasted and drive or drive when they shouldnt be.
 
i seen a car go the wrong way on a ramp once

its crazy when you see it like you almost dont believe what you saw.
 
Originally Posted by EcruteakCityBoy

Is it implying that alcohol was involved ? If so SMDH!
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It's possible, but the person that caused it was a 69-year-old woman. I'm assuming that had more to do with it than anything. Reminds me of that South Park episode. These older folks are death behind a wheel.

Condolences to the families, though. This happened right in my backyard, too. I'm gonna have keep-up with this story.
 
At what point do you realize that you are driving the wrong way? Or was she thinking that everyone else was doing it wrong?
 
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The same thing happened to me last year while I was in college so I know how scary this feels. I was driving back from the casino in San Diego at 4am and it was pitch black on the highway and San Diego gets super foggy as well. I started to see yellow lights coming at me through the fog so I know something wasn't right so I swurved into the next lane over and a few seconds later a car drove by at more tan 80mph. It was one of the scariest feelings and I had 2 friends in the car with me and we were just all in shock. I then saw a police car in flames less than a mile later and debris all over the highway. The police officers tried to stop the vehicle and ended up hitting the center divider and fell into a ravine. The police men both died and it's the man driving on the wrong side of the highway was said caught and it was said that the man was drunk. Sucks to see people lose their lives because of the carelessness of a few people.
 
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Not meaning to thread jack BUT
The elderly in our country need to be reigned in a little bit. I understand that they have paid their dues but some things need to change in order to reflect the current times. A few points:

-social security, medicare and medicaid (along with welfare and other entitlements) are sucking our economy dry.
-old people NEED to be required by law to retake the drivers test YEARLY. at this advanced age people are no more capable behind the wheel then a 12 year old
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1. social security should have been solvent but for the rest of the gov't stealing from it's coffers
2. medicaid not for the elderly

3. 69 is not that old.

what's sucking our economy dry is our military spending.

personally...I advocate for testing of everyone at every drivers license renewal...with new drivers....regardless of age having licenses valid only for 2 yrs before being renewed.
 
I went to High School with one of the victims... Rebekah 
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. She was in my grade.



She dated one of my best friends for two years during HS... was so nice, and wouldn't hurt a fly.




Damn shame 
 
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