<p>So sad! It sounds like they were heading north on I-75 and a car, traveling in the wrong direction, hit them head-on.</p>
<p>Fatalities</a> in head-on collision on N I-75 north of Bowling Green - Toledo Blade</p>
<p>What a heartbreak and a loss to the family, school and our future. My heart goes out to the world and especially the parents of these children of this disastrous event </p>
<p>That’s so awful. D1 and friends are driving down to Florida today for spring break. Will have to send an annoying “please be careful text.”</p>
<p>“groan” - this just made my stomach hit the floor - so sad. S1 is driving to Miami with his friends next week - more gray hairs await.</p>
<p>So sad, can’t even imagine what the families are going through.
My daughter is already planning next years Florida spring break and asked me a few weeks ago about driving with the group instead of flying. Having heard numerous of these heart breaking stories I quickly told her I would use my frequent flyer miles or buy her a ticket. The roads are a lot busier than when I used to do the drive during college. Every parent’s worst nightmare.</p>
<p>Terrible…</p>
<p>Thye were driving to the airport… not to florida. So tragic.</p>
<p>I saw a photo of the wreckage in today’s paper. I am heartsick for the girls’ families.</p>
<p>Here is the new link to the story:</p>
<p>[Spring</a> break trip turns to disaster on I-75 for BGSU students - Toledo Blade](<a href=“Spring break trip turns to disaster on I-75 for BGSU students | The Blade”>http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2012/03/03/BGSU-students-and-Perrysburg-Twp-woman-killed-in-crash.html)</p>
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Why in the world would these young people not have been wearing seat belts? The picture of the rear passenger area of the car shows it relatively intact so I imagine a seat belt could have made a huge difference. Maybe this can serve as a reminder to others that wearing a seat belt is a good idea (not to mention the law in a lot of places) - even when seated in the back seat (the law of physics doesn’t change just because one’s sitting in the back seat).</p>
<p>Minnesota had one of these horrific accidents a couple weeks ago. 4 female freshman heading back to North Dakota State somehow crossed the center median and were killed by an oncoming car. 3 of them were suite mates. The University immediately moved the remaining suite mate into an entirely different dorm. So sad…As a parent, I cannot begin to imagine the pain I would feel.</p>
<p>Ohio doesn’t require back seat passengers to wear seat belts. Maybe that law needs to be changed. It looks like that law really varies among the states.</p>
<p>[Safety</a> belt use laws](<a href=“http://www.iihs.org/laws/SafetyBeltUse.aspx]Safety”>http://www.iihs.org/laws/SafetyBeltUse.aspx)</p>
<p>Something very similar happened with someone I know this weekend. He was a freshman at Harding University, and also encountered a terrible accident at the start of his spring break. For a while, it seemed like there was a very good chance he would make it, so the news of his death was very unexpected. While I wasn’t particularly close to him, I can really tell how much he affected his community. To be honest, I think he’s the very first person I know who’s died. I’m incredibly shaken. It just reminds you how short life can be.</p>
<p>So awful in so many ways. I just keep thinking that the girls who were in the first car & missed being hit, but then knew their friends were in that other car, well, they must be besides themselves.</p>
<p>We had a wrong way accident on I65 in Nashville last week. The driver of the wrong way car was so drunk that she thought she’d gotten into a taxi and wasn’t driving; and of course the driver of the other car was killed. I can’t understand how you can end up driving the wrong way on an interstate.</p>
<p>RobD do you live in Nashville too? I remember reading about the accident on the newspaper. It said that the driver was most definitely drunk.</p>
<p>I can’t understand how you can end up driving the wrong way on an interstate.</p>
<p>I almost got on the freeway the wrong way many years ago. It was very snowy ( we don’t plow here) & the entrance & exit was right next to each other. However someone flashed their lights at me & I adverted my mistake.</p>
<p>We also have constant construction on some of the off/onramps which can make it very confusing as to what direction you are going- but most places you aren’t actually going to get going the wrong way unless your judgement is impaired.</p>
<p>It seems like it is happening more often. Recently a woman sped down the freeway @ over 100mph, for 17 miles. Miraculously no one was hurt.
Glad my daughter is taking the train for her spring break trip.</p>
<p>chaosakita: yup.</p>
<p>Someone please confirm any report that the driver of the wrong-way car was DUI.</p>
<p>She was an older woman. She might have had a health problem.</p>
<p>^^^^^I wondered about that also. I haven’t read anything that implied she was drunk, although of course, that is often the case with wrong way drivers.</p>