SCOTTSDALE, AZ — One person is dead and two others are hurt after a wrong-way crash early Saturday morning in Scottsdale.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety says they started receiving calls of a wrong-way driver heading southbound in the northbound lanes of the Loop 101 north of Shea Boulevard just before 2 a.m.
A DPS trooper patrolling the area found the three-vehicle crash at about 2 a.m. near Shea.
One person was pronounced dead at the scene. DPS confirmed the deceased is the wrong-way driver, but the person has not been identified.
Two others were reportedly taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.