Driver killed in head-on wreck was Peoria woman
Authorities say a 24-year-old woman was the driver killed when her wrong-way car collided head-on with a Greyhound bus on Interstate 10 in the Phoenix suburb of Goodyear.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Quentin Mehr says impairment is suspected in the crash that killed Sarah Castillo-Cornejo of Peoria early Friday morning.
She was dead at the scene while 13 passengers on the bus were taken to hospitals for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
Officials say the bus was carrying 35 passengers and the driver and was en route to Phoenix from San Bernardino, California.
Greyhound representative Lanesha Gipson says another bus took uninjured passengers to Phoenix to finish or continue their travel.
6:35 a.m.
The Arizona Department of Transportation says a segment of I-10 in Goodyear on the west side of the Phoenix metro area is expected to remain closed through the Friday morning commute because of a deadly wreck.
Eastbound I-10 is closed at the Loop 303 freeway due to the head-on collision of a car and a Greyhound bus.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety says the car’s driver was killed and that 13 passengers on the bus had non-life-threatening injuries.
Officials say the bus was carrying 35 passengers and the driver and was en route to Phoenix from San Bernardino, California, when the wreck occurred early Friday morning.
Greyhound representative Lanesha Gipson says another bus took uninjured passengers to Phoenix to finish or continue their travel.
6:20 a.m.
Authorities say a wrong-way car’s driver is dead after smashing head-on into a Greyhound Bus on Interstate 10 in a Phoenix suburb.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety says a westbound car’s driver was killed at the scene and that 13 passengers on the eastbound bus were taken to hospitals for treatment of injuries described as non-life threatening.
Officials say the bus was carrying 35 passengers and the driver and was en route to Phoenix from San Bernardino, California, when the wreck occurred early Friday morning.
Greyhound representative Lanesha Gipson says another bus took uninjured passengers to Phoenix to finish or continue their travel.
News video showed little left of the car. The driver’s identity was not released.
Eastbound traffic on I-10 is being rerouted around the accident site.
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