The video shows headlights coming right toward Greg Follensbee’s vehicle on I-95 south.
"A thousand thoughts go through your head. Is this guy going to hit me? What's going to happen?” said Follensbee
Follensbee was on his way home from FOX25, where he is a master control operator. He has a dash camera on his windshield, which recorded the close call.
The video shows the wrong-way driver pass Follensbee on the right. The driver went on to nearly hit several other cars, including another FOX25 employee, Alycia Astarita, who is an editor.
“Far off in the distance I saw two police cars blocking off the left lane,” she said.
At first
she thought the bad weather was causing people to slow down, but cars started pulling to the right and she fortunately decided to do the same.
“So I had just moved over and a split second later the car was in the lane right next to me,” said Astarita.
She had barely missed a head-on collision.
"I felt like my life flashed in front of me. Oh my God, what if I didn't have the instinct to move over like everyone else? What if I stayed?” she said.
By this time the driver, who police identified as 24-year-old Ahmed Ziad of Norwell, had moved from the breakdown lane clear across to the fast lane, and a van crashed trying to avoid him.
Then, the driver realized he was on the wrong side of the highway and turned around, and continued on. Mass State Police stopped him in Wellesley and arrested him.
Ziad was arraigned on charges related to the incident Friday.