RANDOLPH — A 63-year-old North Grafton, Mass., man is facing charges after police say he drove a tractor-trailer truck the wrong way on Interstate 89 in Vermont on Tuesday for roughly 10 miles.
Police said they received multiple calls around 2:50 p.m. about Daniel F. Sheehan Jr. driving southbound in the northbound lanes of Interstate 89 beginning in the area of Exit 5 in Williamstown, according to a news release.
Troopers and Department of Motor Vehicles inspectors were eventually able to get Sheehan to stop in the Brookfield-Randolph area.
Police arrested Sheehan and cited him into court on charges of driving under the influence and gross negligent operation.
“(He) was unable to provide an explanation as to how he ended up driving (the) wrong way against the flow of traffic for approximately 10 miles,” the release said.
No one was injured and no crashes were reported, but several people were “run off the road” during the incident, according to the release.
Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to call Vermont State Police at 802-234-9933.
Sheehan is due in Orange Superior Court in Chelsea on July 24.