PHOENIX — Two people are hurt after a multi-vehicle crash Sunday morning in west Phoenix.
Phoenix police say six vehicles were involved in the crash near 35th Avenue and Thomas Road just before 8:30 a.m.
The moments of the crash were caught on a liquor store surveillance camera where you can one vehicle crashing into another before everything comes to a stop.
“When I was setting my tables, I heard an awful noise,” said Mario Magana, a food truck owner who had set up shop near the crash.
Magana says he turned around to see cars spinning before they stopped close to his business. He ran to the nearest one and found a woman who was hurt.
“I looked and saw the girl was badly bleeding and beaten. We had to put out the fire with an extinguisher. The car was on fire,” said Magana.
Magana did everything he could to help the woman, running back to his truck to grab towels and cover her head.
“I wasn’t worried about myself, I was worried about the girl,” he said.
First responders had to transport two people to the hospital, one of them had life-threatening injuries.
Magana says he did not even think about it; his first reaction was to run in and help in any way he could. But he says the intersection is very dangerous with plenty of speeders going too hard. He has a message for them.
“That they don’t run so much. That they slow down because, well, life is very beautiful, life is beautiful to live,” he said.
Sunday's crash comes after two other crashes Saturday at the same intersection. While police were responding to one crash in which a child and man were hospitalized in critical condition, another crash happened just east of the intersection.
Police are still investigating what led up to the crash.
