SURPRISE, AZ — One person is dead and four others, including three children, are hurt after a wrong-way crash on U.S. 60 in Surprise.
According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, troopers initially received calls for a driver going the wrong way just before midnight Saturday on U.S. 60 at mile marker 137, near Deer Valley Road.
Moments later a crash involving two vehicles was reported.
DPS says a man, identified as 68-year-old George Weeks, was driving a BMW SUV westbound in the eastbound lanes when his vehicle crashed head-on with a Toyota Sequoia.
A man was driving the Toyota and had three passengers, all under the age of 15, officials said.
The wrong-way driver, Weeks, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Everyone inside the Toyota was taken to hospitals for treatment with "severe yet non-life-threatening" injuries, DPS said.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
