Fatal wrong-way accident shuts down Interstate 10 in Chandler
Feb 10, 2021, 5:29 AM | Updated: 9:16 am
(Twitter Photo/ADOT)
(Twitter Photo/ADOT)
PHOENIX – One person was killed and another injured in a wrong-way accident on a Phoenix-area freeway early Wednesday, authorities said.
The 12:30 a.m. wreck shut down westbound Interstate 10 near Chandler Boulevard in Chandler. Transition ramps on Loop 202 to I-10 were also closed.
Sgt. Kameron Lee with the Arizona Department of Public Safety said several callers alerted troopers to the wrong-way driver, who was heading east in the west lanes near Ray Road in a silver sedan.
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Eventually, the car smashed into another vehicle. The driver of the other car was pronounced dead at the scene.
The wrong-way driver, a 25-year-old woman from Phoenix, suffered serious injuries but is expected to recover.
A third driver, whose car was struck by debris, was unharmed.
The freeway reopened around 6 a.m.
