Wrong-way driver taken into custody on Phoenix freeway

PHOENIX — Authorities stopped a wrong-way driver on a Phoenix freeway early Monday before anyone was injured.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety said the driver had been heading south in northbound lanes of Interstate 17 near the junction with Interstate 10 when they were pulled over.

The driver had been on the road at least from I-17 near Camelback Road. They had primarily been driving in the HOV lane.

Authorities were alerted to the wrong-way driver from the Arizona Department of Transportation’s thermal camera-based wrong-way vehicle detection system.

ADOT WRONG-WAY SYSTEM
I-17 thermal-camera system alerts ADOT, DPS to wrong-way truck this morning. The driver was taken into custody near the I-10 ‘Stack.'

Read all about it: https://t.co/7JtVlXYcYO pic.twitter.com/7kp0vx4nDp

— Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) January 7, 2019

The system detected the truck entering the northbound I-17 exit ramp at Camelback Road shortly after 3 a.m. and alerted authorities. ADOT also activated wrong-way vehicle warnings on overhead freeway signs in the area.

No other details were immediately available.

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