Arizona troopers have shared more views of a Halloween crash that sent people moving out of an oncoming car’s path. The footage adds another look at a Phoenix wreck that Guessing Headlights covered on October 31.
In its Facebook video post, AZDPS Highway Patrol describes how a call to an earlier crash grew into a series of collisions. A trooper’s parked patrol vehicle became part of the wreckage while he waited inside.
The crashes happened early October 31, 2026, on Interstate 17 near Thunderbird Road. As more troopers arrived to help clear the road, another driver entered the scene and struck vehicles already there.
“The scariest thing on Halloween wasn’t ghosts,” the post begins. Along with the added views, AZDPS confirms that both drivers who struck the first trooper’s vehicle were arrested and taken to booking on suspicion of impaired driving.
Another View
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The first trooper responded after a vehicle hit a car blocking the shoulder. While he waited in his patrol vehicle, a gray SUV struck it from behind.
Emergency medical crews examined the SUV’s driver, who was suspected of being impaired. Other troopers arrived to assist, and the trooper whose vehicle was hit went to a local hospital for evaluation.
Before the road could be cleared, a third vehicle struck that patrol vehicle and the SUV, scraping another trooper’s patrol car as well. People at the scene quickly moved clear of the incoming car’s possible path.
Troopers then escorted that driver out of the car and away from the road. He, too, was suspected of being impaired.
The Earlier Footage
According to our previous coverage, the first trooper was driving an unmarked Ford F-150. The SUV was a Hyundai Santa Fe, and the car that later entered the scene was a Dodge Neon.
KNN photographer Jack Sorgi was filming the earlier wrecks when the Dodge arrived. That recording captured the collision as troopers worked nearby, giving readers a view of the scene before the next impact.
The Facebook release adds the Highway Patrol’s perspective to that earlier recording. Its account also confirms the arrests that our first report attributed to KNN.
AZDPS paired the footage with a plea to slow down and move over for emergency crews, road workers, and stopped vehicles. Despite the crashes and the trooper’s trip to the hospital, the post says everyone made it home safely.
All parties are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.