PHOENIX — A woman is dead after a crash on SR-51 near Northern Avenue early Sunday morning.
Arizona Department of Public Safety officials say they were called to the crash just before 12:30 a.m.
Once troopers arrived, they found one vehicle, a red Ford Mustang, involved in the crash.
DPS says a woman, 18-year-old Gianna Jael Lopez of Washington, died after she was ejected from the vehicle. It is believed she was not wearing her seat belt.
Another passenger was ejected during the crash and was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
During an investigation, authorities believe a driver, identified as 20-year-old Adan Dominguez Ornelas of New River, was traveling at a high rate of speed and recklessly driving just before the vehicle went off the road and overturned.
Ornelas was later arrested and booked into jail on a grand jury warrant for two counts of second-degre homicide and one count of aggrevated assault.
DPS says speed and impairment were determined to be factors in the collision.
