Arizona troopers stop wrong-way driver on Interstate 17 in Phoenix
Oct 2, 2019, 5:56 AM | Updated: 10:26 am
PHOENIX – Highway troopers stopped a wrong-way driver speeding on a Phoenix freeway early Wednesday morning, the second of the week.
A spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety said the woman got on Interstate 17 at Yorkshire Drive, near Bell Road, around 2:30 a.m.
Along with her having set off wrong-way detectors at the ramp, witnesses called authorities reporting a Jeep heading southbound in northbound lanes.
Patrol officers managed to stop the 49-year-old near Northern Avenue, about 7 miles from her starting point.
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Officers boxed her in, their vehicles taking minor damage in the process.
No other details were immediately available.
Earlier in the week, five people were injured Monday night in a wreck on I-17, where a driver smashed into three cars.
The driver, a man from Cave Creek, went against traffic from Jefferson Street to Thomas Road.
