Saturday, July 11, 2015

Female passenger killed, 9 injured (4 critically) in wrong-way head-on crash on I-10 in Arizona


Posted: July 11, 2015
A wrong-way driver killed a woman and injured several others on Friday evening.

Quartzsite, Arizona

The deadly crash happened on eastbound I-10 Friday evening near milepost 63, just east of Quartzsite.  A woman was killed in the crash, and seven other people, including two children, were injured.

DPS received a report of a vehicle heading west int he eastbound lanes of I-10 at about 7:30pm.  The wrong-way driver crashed head-on into another vehicle, and two other vehicles were also damaged in the crash.

DPS reports that the wrong-way driver is a woman who suffered critical injuries in the crash.  A woman who was riding with her in the vehicle was killed in the crash.  A man and two children in the car were rushed to the hospital with serious injuries.

Five other patients who were riding in the other two vehicles involved in the crash were all transported to hospitals is the west Valley.