Wrong-Way Driver Dies After Fatal Freeway Crash

A Westminster woman who drove the wrong way on the San Diego Freeway for eight miles before slamming head-on into a car and killing the driver died Friday from injuries suffered in the wreck, authorities said.

Faith Robinson, 23, died at Western Medical Center-Santa Ana at 3:20 p.m., California Highway Patrol Officer Linda Burrus said. She had been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving.

Also killed in the crash was Sang In Ahn of Irvine. His wife, Ook-Ja, the only passenger in his car, remained in a coma Friday in the intensive care unit of UCI Medical Center in Orange.

Jeri Robinson said the family planned to donate her daughter’s organs.

“It’s the least we can do because someone else was killed,” the mother said. “It’s real hard on the other family. If someone else can benefit, it would not be all in vain. Faith would never have wanted to hurt anybody.”

Robinson was an aspiring dancer and a part-time bartender at Silky Sullivans in Fountain Valley.

“I can’t imagine living the rest of my life without her,” Jeri Robinson said, crying. “She was the light of my life.”

Employees at Silky Sullivans also mourned Robinson’s death. “Everyone is upset here,” said restaurant owner Bill Madden. “We’re going to miss her. We don’t know how we’re going to make it through the holidays.”

Jeri Robinson said her daughter had left the house last Friday night to visit a friend. The friend told her that she and Faith talked until 3 a.m. Saturday and added that Faith may have had one or two beers during her visit.

Faith talked to the friend’s brother for another hour before leaving.

At 4:40 a.m, CHP officers received a call from a driver with a mobile phone that a vehicle had entered the San Diego Freeway at Westminster Boulevard heading in the wrong direction.

Four patrol cars were dispatched to the southbound lanes in an attempt to catch Robinson’s attention and get her out of the path of oncoming traffic.

CHP officers who gave chase reported that the vehicle weaved between lanes while traveling south on the northbound lanes.

A CHP spokeswoman said a unit was “one minute away” from catching up with Robinson. But her Buick Regal slammed into the Ahn vehicle near the Bristol Street off-ramp in Costa Mesa.