In the early morning hours of May 26, 2026, Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers responded to a single-vehicle rollover on the AZ-101 transition ramp to US-60 in Tempe after dispatch received several calls reporting the crash. What they found was a vehicle that had gone airborne after striking a storm drain, a driver with a story to tell, and enough signs of impairment to make that story considerably shorter.
The driver’s explanation for how the whole thing unfolded was, to put it charitably, creative. According to the trooper’s investigation, the vehicle crossed over a raised landscaping area separating the AZ-101 mainline from the US-60 transition ramp, caught a storm drain on the way through, and went airborne before landing hard on the other side.
The cause, per the driver: a missed exit. The solution attempted: cutting through the gore point. For those unfamiliar, a gore point is the triangular area of pavement between a highway main lane and an exit or on-ramp, and driving through it is both illegal and, as demonstrated here, structurally ambitious…