DOT: 152 Wrong-Way Drivers Detected On Connecticut Off-Ramps Since Late March
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Wrong-way signage including lights and a surveillance camera on the Park Road off-ramp from I-84 westbound in West Hartford on Sunday, March 23, 2025. Photo credit: Doug Hardy, CTNewsJunkie
West Hartford’s I-84 Exit 43 is one of the ramps that has a wrong-way detection system in place.
By Julie Martin Banks, CTNewsJunkie.com
When it comes to the state Department of Transportation’s wrong-way alert detection system – officials say there is good and bad news.
“The good news is the system is stopping them [drivers] from getting on the highway in the wrong direction,” said Josh Morgan, DOT’s communications director. “The bad news is that it’s happening far too frequently. Just over this holiday weekend, there were seven incidents.”
One of those seven occurred on Sunday. State Police from Troop H in Hartford arrested a Hartford man after they received a 911 caller shortly before 2:30 a.m. who reported a driver heading east on the westbound side of Route 72 in Plainville.
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