Wrong Way Texas Driver in SF

SANTA FE � It�s like a bad dream you have over and over. A New Mexico nightmare on wheels barreling the wrong way down the interstate.
But this is reality. And it happened again early Tuesday.
A woman speeding south at 100 mphplus in the northbound lanes of I-25 was killed and two others injured in yet another wrong-way tragedy. �You can put up all the signs you want, but it keeps happening,� said Santa Fe County Sheriff Robert Garcia. At least 12 people have been killed in wrong-way wrecks on highways near Santa Fe in the past four years � and there have been several more involving injuries. The woman driving the wrong way Tuesday had already clipped another vehicle near Glorieta and traveled another 20 miles before her car slammed head-on into an ambulance being driven by a 19-year-old college student and volunteer Santa Fe County firefighter. Vanessa Carrillo, a driver with Rocky Mountain EMS, was airlifted to University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque and was in critical condition Tuesday night. She underwent surgery that was expected to last up to six hours.

Kylene Holmes, a 38-year-old tattoo artist who lived in El Paso, who was driving the wrong way died at the crash scene, just north of the I-25 Cerrillos Road exit. She was driving a Nissan Altima with out-of-state plates; police say she was going more than 100 mph, headed south in the northbound lanes.

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