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VIDEO: Cell phone video shows wrong-way driver passing oncoming car before stopping on Loop 303

Posted at 6:12 AM, Nov 24, 2016
and last updated 2016-11-24 16:09:32-05

Troopers are investigating after a wrong-way driver was stopped on the Loop 303 early Thursday morning.

According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the vehicle was headed southbound in the northbound lanes near Grand Avenue just before 5 a.m.

Troopers were stopping northbound traffic at Indian School Road when one saw the car coming toward him. The vehicle then slowed to a stop without incident.

An ABC15 viewer headed southbound spotted the driver and captured unsettling video of the car passing an oncoming driver. Watch in the player above.

DPS is now investigating the wrong-way incident and have not yet released further information.