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Teenage girl driving wrong way in Phoenix dies in crash

May 14, 2023, 3:00 PM | Updated: May 15, 2023, 5:19 am

(Facebook Photo/Phoenix Police Department, file)

PHOENIX — A teenage girl driving the wrong way in Phoenix died Sunday after crashing into another vehicle, authorities said.

Officers responded to a call of a two-vehicle collision near 40th Street and Osborn Road around 3 p.m., the Phoenix Police Department said in a press release.

One of the drivers, 17-year-old Amalia Judiscak, was taken to the hospital where she was died.

The driver of the other vehicle was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Detectives said Judiscak was traveling against traffic on 40th Street in the southbound lanes when she collided with another vehicle.

Impairment will be determined through a blood analysis, police said.

No other information was made available.

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