Footage of a “terrifying” car crash caused when a drunk woman drove the wrong way on the M5 for more than two miles has been released. Gloucestershire Constabulary received numerous 999 calls from people reporting a Mini Cooper travelling north on the southbound carriageway of the motorway near Tewkesbury just after midnight on October 5 2022.
Officers discovered a head-on collision near Strensham Services involving the Mini and a Vauxhall Astra, and two lorries which were struck and damaged in the incident. Footage released by the force on Wednesday shows traffic moving southbound along the motorway before the Mini Cooper appears in the third lane and crashes into the Astra.
Carly Pope, 30, from Bristol, who was driving the Astra, suffering a broken arm in two places, whiplash, cuts, bruises and soft tissue damage, while a male passenger had whiplash and bruising. The driver of the Mini Cooper, Dorothy Denny, 65, from Bredon, Worcestershire, sustained broken ribs. She provided a roadside breath test that was more than three times the legal limit.
