Four people died and one suffered life-threatening injuries due to a wrong-way crash involving two vehicles on Interstate 19 south of Tucson early Sunday.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said around 12:45 a.m. they got reports of a wrong-way vehicle traveling southbound in northbound lanes of the Interstate 19 near milepost 46.
The wrong-way car was a Chevy Camaro that crashed with a Nissan Sentra.
DPS said a 52-year-old woman was the wrong-way driver who traveled alone. The driver was one of the four dead.
There were four occupants in the Sentra, a mother and her three sons, DPS said.
The mother and two of her three sons died, the youngest son was airlifted to a Tucson hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Initial reports from the Director of DPS, Col. Frank Milstead via Twitter Sunday morning referred to six dead, “6 fatalities, a family of 4 was killed & injured by a wrong-way driver.”
The tweet also reads that another trooper was able to stop another wrong-way driver “without any fatal ending.”
DPS said impairment will be determined by the medical examiner.
This is an ongoing investigation.
