Wrong-Way I-20 Driver Causes Major Wreck

KILGORE — Multiple agencies responded to a major multi-vehicle crash involving a wrong-way driver on I-20 Thursday morning. According to KETK, the Kilgore Fire Department says it received a call for assistance on a vehicle accident at around 10:54 a.m. By that time, the Gregg County Sheriff’s Office had already received multiple reports of a vehicle traveling east in the westbound lanes. Authorities later learned an “older man” had been driving the wrong way. His vehicle caused several crashes involving two 18-wheelers and four other vehicles, including his own. The man’s vehicle came to rest near exit 589A inside Kilgore city limits. Multiple minor injuries were reported, and the man who is believed to have caused the wrecks was taken to a Longview hospital. The Kilgore Police Department is working with DPS and the Gregg County Sheriff’s Office to determine why the man was traveling in the wrong direction.