ROGERS, Ark. -- Police said the driver involved in a head-on collision that killed a University of Arkansas on Tuesday may have been intoxicated.

Richard Meinke, 47, of Cabot, now faces drunken driving charges for driving nearly six miles the wrong way down Interstate 540 and then hitting another car.

Brad Norris, 19, was in that other car and died at the scene.

Friends said it was ironic that Norris, who had never had a drop of alcohol, was killed in a crash where the other driver was allegedly drunk.

"As you get older, you think you get smarter and wiser," said friend Carrie Forrester. "Just to think somebody so much older than us, driving drunk on the wrong side of the interstate."

"I just found out a couple of hours ago," said Erik Walther. "I couldn't believe it. I was waiting for him to walk in the door."

Police said they are still waiting on blood test results from the state crime lab to confirm that Meinke had alcohol in his system.