An early-Saturday-morning car crash on Interstate 91 remains under investigation after a woman allegedly drove south in the northbound lanes of I-91.
An updated story was posted Saturday, June 18, at 9:20 a.m.
HOLYOKE -- State and local police responded to the scene of an Interstate 91 car crash around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, when an unidentified driver apparently drove south in the northbound lanes of I-91.
Details still remain sketchy, but initial police reports indicated the car left I-91 and wound up on Bemis Road below an elevated section of the highway.
"It appeared to be a wrong-way driver," said Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Adam Hakkarainen, of the Northampton barracks.
"There will be charges," he said, without identifying the driver or the nature of the charges she's facing.
The woman was taken to Holyoke Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, according to Hakkarainen, who deferred comment to state police headquarters in Framingham.
A state police media spokesman didn't immediately have information but said he would check into the matter.
Preliminary police reports indicated an intoxicated woman, believed to be the driver of the car that ran off I-91, was treated at the Holyoke hospital. That information could not immediately be verified.
Holyoke Police Capt. Alan G. Fletcher confirmed that the woman was intoxicated, but he had little information about the incident.
"It's still under investigation," he said, adding that the vehicle involved in the crash was a Jaguar.
THE MAP BELOW shows the approximate spot where a woman's car ran off Interstate 91 in Holyoke early Saturday and wound up on Bemis Road below: