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Devonna Crouch, 16, killed and Cody Rupert, 18, Joe Pena, 21, and Monica Serrano, 18, injured in car accident with driver Robert Joseph Lopez Jr., 19, on Interstate 10 in Phoenix, AZ

Date:

Friday, December 12, 2014

Area:

The 19-year-old driver in a high-speed crash that killed a 16-year-old girl Friday is suspected of driving impaired and faces a possible murder charge. Robert Joseph Lopez Jr., of Glendale, was arrested Sunday. Five people, including 16-year-old Devonna Crouch, were riding in the vehicle when Lopez lost control and slammed into a freeway light pole. Crouch was killed in the impact. A witness said the sedan crossed between lanes on the road and performed risky maneuvers, such as pulling across all the lanes of traffic, and that Lopez might have been trying to scare the people in the car.

Paul Troupe, 22, dead; Mawkua Eliam on life support after semi-truck driven by Brian J. Knoll, 54, rear-ends four vehicles in I-17 in Phoenix, Arizona

Date:

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Area:

Phoenix, AZ

One man is dead and another critically injured after a semi-truck carrying a load of pavers veered across three lanes of traffic and rear-ended four vehicles, causing one of them to burst into flames on northbound I-17 in Phoenix 6:45 a.m. Wednesday. The driver of the burning car, Paul Troupe, 22, of Phoenix, was pulled out of the vehicle and brought to a hospital, where he later died. Mawkua Eliam, the driver of an overturned pickup truck, is unresponsive and on life support in the hospital. The driver of the tractor trailer, Brian J.

Ruben Jimenez Solis, 53, killed in pedestrian crash with hit and run driver on N. 32nd Street in Phoenix on July 18.

Date:

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Area:

Phoenix, AZ

A suspected drunken driver is in custody after police said he struck and killed a pedestrian crossing a Phoenix roadway mid-block and then sped away.

The driver, later identified as Vernon Traylor, 66, was heading southbound in the area of 1800 N. 32nd Street just before 9 p.m. Friday, Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos said.

Traylor hit 53-year-old Ruben Jimenez Solis, Martos said. Solis initially stopped at the scene but when police arrived, he accelerated and sped away.

Witnesses were able to provide officers with information that resulted in the suspect's arrest.

1 killed in head-on crash on Beeline Highway in Phoenix, Arizona

Date:

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Area:

Phoenix, AZ

Alcohol is believed to be a factor in a deadly head-on crash on the Beeline Highway in the East Valley on Thursday night, an Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer said. The collision happened about 10:10 p.m. when a Ford Mustang appeared to have crossed the center line and hitting an SUV head-on, DPS Officer Eric Lamb said. Lamb said an older man who was a passenger in the Mustang was killed. The passenger and the woman driving the northbound Mustang had to be extricated, Lamb said. There was no condition available on the woman.

DUI driver suffers serious injuries after police pursuit leads to crash with dump truck in Maricopa County, Arizona

Date:

Monday, February 10, 2014

Area:

Phoenix, AZ

A vehicle that fled from police collided with a dump truck filled with gravel early Tuesday morning in south Phoenix, according to the Phoenix Police Department. The crash occurred on 19th Avenue near Interstate 17, but the incident originally started at 15th Avenue and Roeser Road when a driver failed to yield to officers, said Sgt. Steve Martos, a Phoenix police spokesman. Officers did not pursue the car but later came upon the collision, Martos said. The driver of the vehicle suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries and was processed for a DUI, Martos said.

Tiffany Pemberton, 31, arrested for DUI and leaving the scene of an accident while driving with her 7-year-old son in the car on 107th and Olive avenues in Phoenix, Arizona

Date:

Friday, January 31, 2014

Area:

Phoenix, AZ

An El Mirage woman accused of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident had her 7-year-old son in the vehicle when she was arrested early Saturday morning, police said. Tiffany Pemberton, 31, of El Mirage, faces several charges, including aggravated DUI, aggravated assault, endangerment and hit-and-run with injuries. The hit-and-run accident occurred just after midnight Saturday in the area of 107th and Olive avenues. The two occupants of the other vehicle were injured but are expected to be OK. Pemberton fled the scene and half-a-mile later, ran out of gas.