PHOENIX (AP) - The Latest on a fatal wrong-way crash on a Phoenix freeway (all times local):
9:30 a.m.
A Phoenix freeway has reopened after being closed during the Tuesday morning commute following a wrong-way head-on accident that killed both drivers.
Westbound Loop 101 was closed at Interstate 17 for more than five hours following the crash.
Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Quentin Mehr says impairment is suspected. DPS Capt. Tim Mason says authorities received calls about a possibly impaired driver in the area shortly before the crash.
Mason says people tried to stop that driver from getting into his car at a gas station but were unsuccessful.
Mehr says one of the vehicles caught fire after the crash and that both drivers were dead at the scene.
Identities weren’t released.
6:20 a.m.
Authorities say impairment is suspected in a wrong-way head-on accident that killed both drivers and closed part of a Phoenix freeway during the Tuesday morning commute.
Authorities say the wrong-way vehicle was eastbound on westbound Loop 101 when the collision occurred, closing that portion of the freeway and diverting traffic onto Interstate 17.
Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Quentin Mehr says impairment is suspected. DPS Capt. Tim Mason says authorities received calls about a possibly impaired driver in the area shortly before the crash.
Mason says people tried to stop that driver from getting into his car at a gas station but were unsuccessful.
Mehr says one of the vehicles caught fire after the crash and that both drivers were dead at the scene.
Identities weren’t released.
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