MORAINE — Police said a man was drunk when he drove the wrong way on I-75 in Montgomery County and slammed into another driver.
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As News Center 7 previously reported, the crash happened on I-75 southbound near Dryden Road around 10 p.m. on Oct. 24.
Drivers flooded dispatchers with 911 calls before the crash, and right after it.
The two drivers only suffered minor injuries
New cruiser cam video shows Moraine police rushing to respond.
The emergency calls for help started coming in minutes earlier.
“There was a car in the very far left lane going south, or in southbound lane heading north,” a 911 caller said.
Drivers from both sides of the highway called 911 about where they saw the wrong-way driver.
As officers were responding to those calls, the wrong-way driver crashed into another driver.
He also called 911.
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Video shows a firefighter called out to one of the officers as they got to the at-fault driver.
“I’m pretty sure he’s been drinking tonight,” the firefighter said.
That’s a suspicion Moraine police said they later confirmed with evidence.
“Seeing things such as beer bottles in the vehicle, an odor of alcohol,” Sgt. Andrew Parish said.
Police said the at-fault driver told them he had been at a friend’s house in Moraine.
Officers checked on the driver whom the suspect hit.
Then talked to the suspect, Brayan Minarcaja-Ilbay.
Moraine police say he didn’t have a driver’s license.
He’s looking at legal trouble beyond the OVI and other traffic charges he’s facing locally.
“It’s apparent to us now that he may be an undocumented person in the country. He does have a holder on him at the jail from the Department of Immigration,” Parish said.
News Center 7 reached out to ICE to ask about that detainer on Minarcaja-Ilbay and any immigration cases for him.
We are waiting to hear back.
Moraine police said they don’t know where he started going the wrong way on I-75.
The Ohio Department of Transportation confirmed to News Center 7 that they have no evidence the driver tripped a wrong-way detector.
Which suggests he didn’t start going the wrong way on I-75 by going the wrong way on an off-ramp that’s monitored by that technology.
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