PHOENIX — A Good Samaritan is dead and multiple others are hurt after a serious multi-vehicle crash on the Loop 202 near 32nd Street in Phoenix early Sunday morning.
Phoenix Fire Department officials say they were called around 4:15 a.m. to the Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway near 32nd Street for the crash.
When they arrived, they found five cars involved in the crash.
A total of four people were taken to the hospital. A man in his 30s and a man in his 20s.
An infant and a man in his 40s were transported in stable condition.
DPS officials say this crash was caused by a vehicle that had been involved in a hit-and-run crash on I-17 near Durango earlier in the morning.
It was then involved in a single-vehicle crash on the Loop 202 near 32nd Street.
Sgt. Eric Andrews, with DPS, said another car then hit the crashed vehicle. Then, another car with two Good Samaritans stopped and got out to help.
Andrews said another vehicle then crashed into the Good Samaritan’s vehicle and pushed into one of the men helping, injuring him.
The man was taken to the hospital where he died from his injuries.
“This is an absolute tragedy to hear that the one person that was, the main victim in this is the person who was completely uninvolved and stopped just to assist,” Andrews said.
Impairment is being investigated as a possible factor.
