Three people were hurt in a wrong-way crash along the US-60 in Mesa on Wednesday night.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety first received calls of the wrong-way driver just before 9 p.m. Witnesses reported seeing a car that made a U-turn near Power Road before heading wrong-way in the westbound lanes.
Callers also reported that a silver Nissan Xterra side-swiped a Toyota Prius and nearly hit a Chey Malibu.
The initial collision involving the Prius caused the Prius to swerve and it was hit by a Chevy Silverado.
A chinchilla in the Silverado was killed.
All three people who were injured suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
DPS says the driver of the wrong-way vehicle was an elderly woman.
