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Man drives wrong way on the highway

Gets into fatal accident, charged for manslaughter

Updated: Thursday, 04 Feb 2010, 10:45 AM MST
Published : Thursday, 04 Feb 2010, 10:44 AM MST

DALLAS (CNN) - Officer Chuck Milner spotted the SUV heading south in a northbound lane.

"You'll see this truck right here," said Milner, with the Van Alstyne police. "See how the lights are flashing? And there's the wrong-way driver basically right beside it right there."

Milner turns his patrol car around on the access road and speeds up.

"I tried to get out little bit in front of it to shine my light back, just trying to get the attention of the driver," said Milner. "I'm doing everything I can to try to alert the driver. It's just nothing was working."

As the wrong-way vehicle crosses the bridge at Farmington Road, it narrowly misses two cars and then smashes into a third driven by Hien Vuong of Garland.

"You can hear me," said Milner. "I mean, I don't even know what I said. It was more of a, you know like 'Aah!'"

Milner turns his car around and sees the smoking wreckage. The officer thought traffic was coming to a stop. Suddenly, a car appears.

"And it was at that point that I realized that I needed to move," said Milner.

Milner tried talking with the drivers. Vuong later died at a Sherman hospital. Wrong-way driver, Bobbi LaLonde, is charged with intoxication manslaugter.

"I mean, I don't need the dash cam video to relive that," said Milner.

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