Video circulating on social media shows a passenger car traveling in the wrong direction and into oncoming traffic on the Athens-Corinth national highway, an incident that luckily didn’t end with disaster.
The incident occurred at about 1:45 p.m. Sunday near the Magoula exit on the tollway toward Corinth. The driver was identified as an 82-year-old woman whose driving license had expired last month.
Authorities are expected to investigation file a case against the woman. It was not immediately clear how she entered the wrong way into the highway or how long she continued driving against traffic before the incident was recorded.
The footage shows the black vehicle moving toward oncoming traffic as other motorists pass it, highlighting the risk of a head-on collision on a high-speed national highway.
The incident is similar to several recent cases in Greece involving elderly drivers traveling in the wrong direction.
In February, an 89-year-old man drove for about 10 kilometers against traffic on the Egnatia motorway in northern Greece. A 50-year-old woman suffered broken ribs after swerving into a ditch to avoid a head-on collision with his vehicle. Police later stopped the driver.
In September 2025, a 70-year-old woman drove nearly one kilometer in the wrong direction on the Olympia Odos tollway near Patras before colliding head-on with another vehicle. Two people were killed and one was seriously injured.
Another case occurred in July, when three vehicles were filmed traveling in the wrong direction on the Egnatia tollway near the Kipi border crossing with Turkey. A truck driver captured the vehicles on his dashcam and took evasive action to avoid a collision.
Greece has no fixed maximum age for driving, although license renewals require medical examinations for older drivers, with stricter requirements applying after the age of 80.
