GREEN VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) - Authorities on Monday identified the wrong-way driver and three others killed in a deadly collision near Green Valley.
Arizona Department of Public Safety officials confirmed that 52-year-old Tambra Hoskins was driving the wrong way on Interstate 19 on Sunday morning when her car crashed head-on with another vehicle.
The driver of the other car, 41-year-old Edith Munoz of Tucson, and her two sons, 24-year-old Mario Gradillas and 19-year-old Saul Gradillas, were also killed, DPS spokeswoman Vanessa Sevilla said.
Munoz’s 14-year-old son survived and was airlifted to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. His condition was not immediately known Monday.
Sevilla says DPS has not determined how Hoskins ended up driving the wrong way.
The Pima County medical examiner will investigate whether she was impaired.
In a tweet Sunday, DPS director Col. Frank Milstead said the collision was one of two wrong-way traffic incidents over the weekend. In the second case, the driver was stopped by a trooper and there were no fatalities.
“Be aware while driving you may need to save yourself,” Milstead wrote.
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This story has been changed to correct the wrong-way driver’s first name as Tambra, after authorities initially reported it as Tamvra.
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