A 24-year-old woman is facing charges after allegedly driving the wrong way on Loop 101 overnight before crashing.
Just before midnight on Thursday, an Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) sergeant attempted to stop a wrong-way vehicle heading northbound on Loop 101 near Glendale Avenue.
The sergeant observed a black passenger car entering the northbound lanes and driving southbound in the incorrect direction near Maryland Avenue.
When the sergeant attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver, Carissa Wynter Creely of Tempe, allegedly maneuvered around the patrol vehicle, altered direction, and sped off.
The driver later collided with a raised median on Glendale Avenue, according to DPS.
Creely was subsequently arrested and brought into jail, facing accusations of aggravated DUI-wrong way, aggravated DUI while suspended, unauthorized flight, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, and endangerment.
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