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The driver of a station wagon traveling on the wrong side of Interstate 40 that collided head-on with a car carrying seven Malaysian students was legally...

AMARILLO, Texas -- The driver of a station wagon traveling on the wrong side of Interstate 40 that collided head-on with a car carrying seven Malaysian students was legally drunk, a justice of the peace said Friday.

Potter County Justice of the Peace Lewis C. Brazier said the blood-alcohol level of Linda Scott, 38, Fritch, was 0.26.

Texas law says a person is legally intoxicated with a 0.10 blood-alcohol level, Potter said.

Scott, along with six of the Malaysian students from North Texas State University, died in the crash late Monday night.

Blood tests on the students showed no traces of alcohol in their systems, Potter said.

Mrs. Scott's husband, Donald Wayne Scott, 38, remained in extremely critical condition Friday at Northwest Texas Hospital, a nursing supervisor said. The only surviving student, Norlaili Mohamed-Yunus, 21, was in serious condition Friday at the same hospital.

Police investigators at the scene of the accident Monday night found several beer cans in the Scott vehicle. Investigators said the two cars were traveling about 60 mph when they collided, and there were no skid marks.

The students were on their way to an Islamic conference in Colorado at the time of the accident, an NTSU official said.

Police said the accident was the deadliest in the city's history.