LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Ingham County deputies dealt with four wrong-way drivers on Thanksgiving night; including one involving a driver who crashed into a deputy’s patrol car.

Around 4:30 a.m. Friday morning, deputies learned a vehicle was traveling the wrong way on northbound US-127 near I-96. While deputies were able to successfully pull the car over near Covert Rd, the car struck a patrol car and continued traveling south in the northbound lane.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department used a tire deflation device to flatten all four tires of the car, killing the 37-year-old St. He arrested the driver from St. Johns. According to the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office, the Ingham County District Attorney will investigate and determine whether to charge the man with reckless driving, fleeing and eluding, and resisting arrest.

While no one was injured in the accident, the deputy’s vehicle suffered minor damage.

However, before this incident, deputies dealt with three other incidents. The first of those occurred around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, when deputies were dispatched to the wrong-way driver of US-127 in Jackson County, but returned after Jackson County deputies pulled the car over.

At 3 a.m., dispatch responded to a vehicle arriving on Cedar St. learned he was driving eastbound in the westbound lanes of nearby 496, but deputies were unable to find the car.

Fifteen minutes later, around 3:15 a.m., deputies responded to a southbound vehicle in the northbound lanes of US-127 near I-96, but were unable to locate the car. Jackson County deputies pulled the vehicle over.

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