Woman arrested after driving wrong way for 10 miles
Meg Jones
A 29-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested early Saturday after she drove south in the northbound lanes of Interstate-41 for 9.8 miles, authorities said.
Tamara Marie McVicker entered I-41 at Highway Q in Waukesha County and traveled for around 15 minutes, passing two squad cars that tried to stop her while other deputies halted northbound traffic, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office. McVicker was finally slowed by a semitrailer truck driver while a deputy positioned his squad car to stop her.
McVicker was uncooperative, refused to answer questions and was verbally hostile to deputies, according to the Sheriff's Department. Waukesha County dispatchers notified Milwaukee County at 2:50 a.m. Saturday of the wrong-way driver. She was stopped at 3:04 a.m. at W. Burleigh St.
McVicker was arrested on allegations of drunken driving, second offense, driving with a revoked license, second-degree recklessly endangering safety, driving the wrong way on a divided highway and non-registration of a vehicle, the Sheriff's Office said.
Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies arrested nine other drunken drivers over the weekend, with the average portable breath test results being 0.14, almost twice the legal limit.