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FHP: Wrong-way driver almost collided with several cars on SR 414

Published  August 31, 2021 11:34pm EDT
Crime and Public Safety
FOX 35 Orlando

FHP: Wrong-way driver arrested on State Road 414

A trooper with the Florida Highway Patrol say a wrong-way driver was stopped on State Road 414. They said the driver almost struck several other vehicles on the highway that runs from Maitland to Apopka. The trooper, and a police officer from Altamonte Springs, spotted the car and finally got the driver to stop. That driver arrested and charged with DUI

LAKE MARY, Fla. - A trooper with the Florida Highway Patrol says a wrong-way driver was stopped on State Road 414 on Tuesday morning.

The trooper was stopped on the right shoulder on the eastbound lanes on the roadway around 5:30 a.m. and observed headlights traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes. 

The trooper said the driver almost collided with several other vehicles on the highway that runs from Maitland to Apopka. The trooper and a police officer from Altamonte Springs finally got the driver to stop.  

The driver, identified as 42-year-old Howard Garfield Galloway, said he was following his GPS, according to a report.  

Galloway was arrested and charged with DUI.

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