RECENT FATAL WRONG-WAY CRASHES IN THE MIAMI VALLEY

■ April 30, 2017: Authorities said Andrew T. Brunsman, 30, of Beavercreek, was killed after his car plowed headon into a semi hauling a tanker of gasoline on Interstate 75 in downtown Dayton. The collision and following explosions sent fireballs skyward and plumes of black smoke pouring over nearby neighborhoods. Officials ruled Brunsman had alcohol and marijuana in his system at the time of crash.

■ April 8, 2016: Nazif Shteiwi, 61, and his wife, Halla Odeh Shteiwi, 55, of Fairfield, were returning from a family function in Kentucky when hit by Kory Wilson, 30, of Springfield Twp., on I-75 in Evendale. Wilson had a blood-alcohol level 2.5 times the legal limit. Wilson was driving the correct way on I-75 seconds before the crash, then abruptly turned around.

■ March 10, 2016: Christy Lakins, 36, of New Carlisle, drove the wrong way on Interstate 70 near Ohio 41 in Clark County and crashed into a semi, whose driver and his wife, who was a passenger, were not injured. Officials ruled Lakins’ death a suicide. ■ Feb. 13, 2016: James Pohlabeln, 61, of Dayton, who had a suspended license and had threatened suicide in the past, drove his car the wrong way on I-75 where he collided head-on with a sport utility vehicle, killing four young friends: Kyle Canter, 23, of New Carlisle; Earl Miller II, 27, of New Carlisle; Vashti Nicole Brown, 29, of Dayton; and Devin Bachmann, 26, of Huber Heights. Pohlabeln had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit, according to a toxicology report. Pohlabeln had been released on an OVI charge for a suspected drunk-driving incident the day before the deadly crash.

■ April 14, 2015: Chris Coleman, 35, of Xenia, passed through an emergency U-turn drive to the oncoming lanes of I-70 near the 48-mile marker in Clark County. He drove the wrong way on the shoulder before veering into the path of an oncoming tractortrailer. Coleman’s Mazda exploded on impact, and he died at the scene. The semi driver escaped without injury. Officials ruled Coleman’s death a suicide.

■ March 24, 2015: Maribel Pablo Mijangos, 32, of Columbus, was killed when the van she was riding in was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver on eastbound I-70 in Madison County. The van flipped on impact, injuring two other adults and three children. Mattison Skoog, 24, of Columbus, told investigators she had no memory of the crash and her blood-alcohol level was 0.19 percent, according to The Columbus Dispatch. Skoog was sentenced to five years in prison and a lifetime driving ban.

■ Oct. 25, 2013: Motorcyclist Kenneth D. Dawson, 55, of Fairborn, died after he hit a car while going in the wrong direction on the Interstate 675 bridge over I-70 in Clark County. Dawson was launched from his motorcycle and landed in the westbound lanes of I-70 below. The other driver wasn’t injured and reported seeing Dawson swerving from side to side like he didn’t know where to go in the construction zone before the accident.

■ Sept. 29, 2013: Francois Hagenimana, a 24-yearold native of Rwanda and assistant coach for the Centerville High School football team, was killed along with 28-year-old Wright State University graduate Jason Fricke, of Westerville, in a collision on I-70 in Clark County. Hagenimana drove for about 10 miles in the wrong direction before colliding with Fricke’s car.

■ August 12, 2012: Rachel Schidecker, 18, drove the wrong way up I-75 north of Dayton for nearly four miles and hit a Chevrolet Blazer, sending it into a tractortrailer, where it was dragged before bursting into flames. Driver David Wilson suffered life-changing injuries and his passenger Chereece Rule died. She had come from Missouri to drop off her son, Skip, a Central State basketball player. Schidecker had a bloodalcohol level nearly four times the legal driving limit and was sentenced to three years in prison.

■ May 10, 2010: Rebecca Arrowood, 28, of New Lebanon, was killed on her way to work when a woman driving the wrong way on the ramp from southbound I-75 to northbound I-675 collided with her vehicle head-on. The other driver, Michelle Sharp, 38, of Cincinnati, was also killed. Sharp was driving with an unsealed bottle of vodka in her car, according to troopers.