By Associated Press - Thursday, June 8, 2017

PHOENIX (AP) - Video footage of a wrong-way driver who died in the Tuesday night crash shows he barreled through a parking garage gate before getting on a Phoenix freeway.

In a video posted Thursday by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, security cameras show the driver of a red sedan travelling against traffic on a freeway near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Time stamps indicate the driver drove against freeway traffic for at least four minutes before taking a ramp onto State Route 51, where the driver collided head-on with a white sedan.



Both drivers were killed and a third driver was injured.

The wrong-way driver narrowly avoided a pedestrian near the airport and circled a Sky Harbor parking lot for about a minute before driving onto airport roads.

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