Pattullo Bridge crash damages several vehicles

New Westminster police arrested a woman driver on suspicion of impaired driving after a crash on the Pattullo Bridge damaged several vehicles.

A northbound burgundy station wagon drove across the bridge, straddling the centreline and wentover the pylon dividers until it crashed into a concrete divider.

Police confirmed Friday the woman had been arrested and that an impaired driving investigation was ongoing.

Rush hour drivers, including Noor Makhani,scrambledto avoid the car around 6:30 p.m. PT on Thursday.

His was one of the first cars to be hit, and he says the femaledriver just seemed to want to overtake another vehicle.

"She just slammed through the poles and I thought she would almost hit me, so I slammed the brakes," he said. "I thought she was going to hit me head on."

"The pole came, smashed her windshield, it smashed the other cars."