PHOENIX — The Arizona Department of Public Safety is investigating after a deadly motorcycle crash and a crash that caused a car to catch fire happened at roughly the same time on I-17 in Phoenix.
DPS has confirmed the motorcycle crash in the southbound lanes of I-17 near Camelback Road is deadly.
According to officials, the motorcyclist was driving at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control. The driver was taken to the hospital where they later died.
At the same time, DPS says they were also handling a four-vehicle crash where one of the vehicles caught fire in the northbound lanes of I-17 in the same area.
No one was hurt in the crash in the northbound lanes.
The crashes remain under investigation.
