A WOMAN in Washington State, the United States, drove nearly 30 kilometers on the wrong side of the highway going up to 160 km an hour.

    “She didn’t even know she was on the freeway and at first she couldn’t grasp that had happened,” State trooper Guy Gill said.

    Police unsuccessfully tried to stop Olympia schoolteacher Pamela Drawsby, 60, by using their sirens, spotlights and even a PA system, according to the Bend Bulletin. A trooper even drove alongside Drawsby’s Lincoln LS, attempting to warn her that she was headed for danger.

    Police were only able to stop Drawsby by closing down I-5 at the main gate of a joint Army and Air Force base, Lewis-McChord, using spike strips to puncture her tires.

    And at first, even the tire spikes were unsuccessful, “because the driver was all over the place, using all the lanes,” said Gill.

    Amazingly, no one was hurt, despite several “near misses,” Gill said.

    Before she was stopped Drawsby headed down the southbound lanes of I-5 at 2 a.m., reaching speeds of 160 kmph.

    Drawsby bailed herself out of jail the next morning and claimed to not remember anything from the previous night. Police investigators said it “appeared” she had been drinking and taking prescription medication. Drawsby has since pleaded “not guilty” to a DUI charge.(SD-Agencies)