FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) —The latest on the Tropical Storm Rosa effects in northern Arizona.
12:35 p.m.
Authorities say a French citizen was killed after a driver lost control on a stretch of a northern Arizona highway that collapsed from storm damage.
Arizona Department of Public Safety officials said Thursday the victim in the Wednesday night collision was a 26-year-old woman from France.
The woman was driving northbound on U.S. 89 and had just crossed a section that started to give way.
Troopers say she then got out of the vehicle.
That is when a 40-year-old Lakeside, Arizona, man crossed the collapsed area but lost control. His pickup truck struck the victim, who was standing outside of her car.
The woman died at the scene. Her two passengers have been released from a hospital.
The other driver and his passenger were treated at the scene.
10:50 a.m.
Authorities say a fatal collision occurred before a stretch of northern Arizona highway washed out by rain was closed because of a giant sink hole.
The Arizona Department of Transportation said Thursday that troopers discovered the large hole that resembles a washout when they responded to an accident late Wednesday night on U.S. 89 near the community of Cameron.
The agency says it appears two vehicles collided and one person was killed. An undisclosed number of others were transported to a hospital for unknown injuries.
Troopers say one vehicle may have run into the sink hole.
7:05 a.m.
A 15-mile (24-kilometer) stretch of a northern Arizona highway is closed because of damage from heavy rains and officials say the closure likely will last a while and result in a lengthy detour.
The Arizona Department of Transportation announced Thursday that northbound lanes of U.S. 89 are closed at Cameron and that southbound lanes are closed at the highway’s junction with U.S. 160 about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of Cameron.
Cameron is 52 miles (84 kilometers) north of Flagstaff.
ADOT says an repairs likely will require “an extended closure” and that alternative routes will add about 190 miles (306 kilometers) to a trip.
According to ADOT, the alternative routes are Interstate 40, State route 87, State Route 264 and US 160.
