911 tapes reveal frantic calls in deadly I-85 wrong-way crash - Atlanta News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports | FOX 5

Emotional callers frantically called for help to report a wrong-way driving incident on Interstate 85 near Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson International Airport. The resulting crash killed two people, including the wrong-way driver, on Wednesday.

"He's flying down the wrong way," was how one caller to 911 described the driver of the wrong-way vehicle.

A wrong-way driver in a pickup truck southbound in the northbound lane of Interstate 85 collided head-on with a truck pulling a trailer just before 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Police say a third vehicle was also struck.

"I just watched a truck just running down the wrong way. He just ran head-on and turned into a fireball. Oh, my God," said another caller to 911, as he described the collision. "The truck was hauling, going southbound in the northbound lanes, and he dodged a couple people and then he came headlong into some kind of commercial truck."

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Jeffrey Justus was one of several motorists who ran over to see what they could do.

"It was a just a bad scene. I was just at the right place at the right time and reacted like I would hope anyone else would do," said Justus.

Justus saw an unconscious passenger in the truck struck head-on by the wrong way driver. The driver could communicate, but seconds is all Justus and the other Good Samaritans had.

"There was a lot explosions and popping and banging going on in the little truck. And under the hood of his truck – I remember him screaming, saying he couldn't get out," said Justus.

Justus and others were able to get that driver out. He remains hospitalized at Grady Hospital. However, his passenger, 49-year-old Christopher O'Day, of upstate New York, died from injuries.

The wrong-way driver, 49-year-old William Wright of Florida, was also killed.

Police officials are concerned about the holiday weekend, as most accidents of this type happen due to a driver being impaired. Officers said that a DUI task force will be on patrol in search of impaired drivers.

Sources indicate that the wrong-way driver had been involved in a separate crash a short distance away. Investigators believe that driver left the scene of that accident, saw a police cruiser and panicked, a source told FOX 5's Morse Diggs. He then ended up going the wrong way on the interstate.