A wrong-way driver causes a five-car accident on U.S. 59

AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

No one was hurt in a five-car crash caused by an allegedly impaired wrong-way driver early Thursday morning on U.S. 59.

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The crash happened around midnight, when the driver clipped a truck and car before piling into two other vehicles near Newcastle Drive on the Southwest Freeway.

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The driver’s car and one other were extensively damaged, but amazingly, no one was seriously hurt in the multi-car wreck.

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The driver was taken to the hospital and it is currently unknown what charges will be filed; authorities do believe the driver was impaired at the time of the accident.

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