CHANDLER, ARIZONA
COLLISION BETWEEN A CRANE TRUCK AND A CAR LEAVES THE CAR DRIVER IN CRITICAL
CONDITION. THE CRANE TRUCK DRIVER RUN A
RED LIGHT.
January 15, 2015
Chandler, Arizona
A 65-year-old man was critically injured after the
driver of a crane truck ran a red light and hit a Toyota in Chandler.
A Chandler wreck between a crane truck and a sedan left
a 65-year-old man in critical condition and his wife with non-life-threatening
injuries on Thursday morning, according to a police spokesman.
The collision at Alma School Road and Fulton Ranch
Boulevard forced investigators to close the intersection until about 11 a.m.
Thursday, said Sgt. Joe Favazzo, a Chandler police spokesman.
The crane truck was traveling northbound on Alma School
Road at about 9 a.m. Thursday when the 47-year-old driver ran a red light,
Favazzo said. The truck collided with the driver's-side door of a Toyota Camry
that the 65-year-old man was driving, he said.
Firefighters had to extricate the driver from the car
and he was taken to a hospital in critical condition, Favazzo said.
The man's wife was also injured, he said.
The wreck is under investigation, Favazzo said, but
impairment and distraction did not appear to be immediate factors that
contributed to the driver running the red light.