Caught on Tape: Wrong way driver crashes in Mississippi

11:43 AM, Jul 23, 2012   |    comments
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UNDATED (CNN) -- It's a driver's worst nightmare caught on camera; a driver speeding the wrong way on a highway.

There is something very wrong with this picture, a wrong way driver. You can hear a passenger in the car from which this video was shot calling 911.

They had watched the car swerve onto the wrong side of divided Highway 49 in Collins, Mississippi. Al fanning, his wife and two kids were driving home from the beach when they first saw the car driving in front of them weaving all over the place. Fanning says, "He had both hands on the steering wheel. And his head was just dropped like he was unconscious...I was blowing the horn at him trying to get him to wake up."

At a traffic light the car crossed over to the wrong side of the highway, and that's when the Fannings started recording.

We've seen plenty of wrong way car video, from this dash-cam view of a Utah trooper who saw a vehicle going the wrong way, turned around, and got in front of it, to this scary cell phone video of a car in Oregon weaving into the opposite lane and eventually going off the road.

What they have in common is you wait for the worst to happen. The good news is "severely bad" was not the outcome.

The wrong way car hit a ford expedition. Al fanning opened the door of the expedition and two female occupants walked out basically unhurt.

The driver of the wrong way car, 58-year old Edward Fairley, suffered a broken shoulder and other non-life threatening injuries. Fanning says police believe a medical condition may have caused his wild driving.

Fanning himself has been cheered for helping and not just recording. Though recording while driving got Fanning a scolding. A law enforcement officer says, "Because he's not focused on the roadway himself."

The wrong-way driver told police he doesn't remember anything. He was charged with reckless driving and no proof of insurance.

But he could face more charges, depending on the results of toxicology tests.