Phoenix,AZ : Early morning crashes disrupt cross-country move on may, Tuesday 30th 2017

Two early morning crashes on the Arizona stretch of Interstate 15 disrupted a cross-country move that was nearly at its end Tuesday.

Around 2:17 a.m., Arizona time, a 38-year-old woman from Columbus, Ohio, was southbound on I-15 in the area of milepost 22.5 when she was involved in a single vehicle collision, Sgt John Bottoms, of the Arizona Department of Safety, said.

The (responding) trooper believes, based on physical evidence on the roadway, that she fell asleep
“She doesn’t really know what happened,” Bottoms said. “The (responding) trooper believes, based on physical evidence on the roadway, that she fell asleep.”

The woman, who was traveling with two minor-aged children in the car, is believed to have drifted off the roadway, overcorrected and hit the guardrail along the roadside. The car’s airbags deployed and the car came to a stop in the left lane on a bridge over the Virgin River.

The woman and her children – who sustained minor injuries, mainly dumps and bruises, Bottoms said – got out of the car and were picked up by a motorist who had stopped to help. The motorist took them out of the gorge to a location where the woman was able to get cell phone reception.

She proceeded to call another family member while somebody else on the road called authorities about the crashed car left on the bridge that was blocking traffic.

The woman and her children were in the process of moving from Ohio to Las Vegas, Bottoms said.

While heading to the first crash, the responding trooper was contacted around 3:25 a.m. concerning “a vehicle traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of I-15 from the area of the Nevada state line,” Bottoms said.


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Early morning crashes disrupt cross-country move