Requiescat in pace pic.twitter.com/dpXM1CbPEU

— Father Jim Sichko (@JimSichko) June 5, 2021

Our daughters turned around and headed back to Lexington, rather than coming to our place for the weekend, because traffic was backed up from accidents on Interstate 75 and the alternate, US 25. Then I saw a tweet, previous to this one, from Father Jim Sichko, noting that he’d been on the scene of a terrible, fatal accident, in the Interstate.

Updated: Two adults and four children dead after crash on I-75 in Lexington

By Karla Ward | June 5, 2021 | 02:43 PM | Updated: 10:07 PM EDT

Six people, four of them children, died in a crash involving a driver going the wrong way on Interstate 75 Saturday afternoon.

The head-on collision was reported at mile marker 102.6 in southern Fayette County just before 12:30 p.m.

Lexington police said a 38-year-old woman was driving a dark passenger car southbound in the northbound lanes of I-75 when she crashed into a white passenger car.

The 30-year-old driver of the white vehicle and four children who were riding in it all died, as did the woman driving the dark passenger car, police said in a news release Saturday night.

Police said the woman driving the wrong way died at the scene, as did a child who was found in the front passenger seat of the white car.

The police stated that they had received a report that a vehicle had gotten on I-75 going in the wrong direction at the Lexington/Athens entrance, which is between mile markers 104 and 105. The crash happened at mile marker 102.6, so the woman who was driving the dark car had traveled at least 1½ miles in the wrong direction. And, as you can see from Fr Sichko’s photo, Interstate 75 has very wide shoulders on both sides of the road in that area.

A non-suicidal, non-intoxicated driver who had simply made a mistake in getting on the highway in the wrong direction had plenty of area to get off the traffic lanes. While I cannot know the mind of the deceased wrong way driver, the first thought that jumps into my mind is that this was a deliberate suicide. Too bad she decided to take other people with her.