LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Jose Osegueda was driving home from work on the Strip on the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, when he saw a driver coming at him the wrong way.
Osegueda was heading northbound on I-15 toward the Spaghetti Bowl.
“It just zoomed past me,” he said.
Cameras on his Tesla car picked up different angles of the wrong way driver, who was in the HOV lane.
“I was really confused at first and then in that moment I was just so shocked. I didn’t know how to feel until after the incident. And my body was just shaking,” Osegueda explained.
The incident is just one of many wrong way driver incidents the public never hears about.
District 13 State Assemblyman Brian Hibbetts testified in Carson City this week about the many wrong way drivers other motorists encounter. He is trying to pass a new bill, AB 111, which makes wrong way driving criminal, instead of civil.
“Using a keyword search in the dispatch system, LVMPD found 634 reports of wrong way drivers for calendar year 2024. 634,” said Hibbetts.
Hibbetts added, “NHP responded to 731 wrong way driver calls for service in their jurisdiction in 2024.”
Osegueda says he called police to report the wrong way driver but it’s unknown what happened after he encountered the car.
He tells FOX5 he is now trying to stay off the freeways and usually takes side streets, even though it takes longer to get home.
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