MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — An 82-year-old grandmother is dead and two family members are hospitalized after troopers say a suspected impaired driver crashed into their vehicles early Wednesday morning while they were pulled over on U.S. 60 near Higley Road.
Javier Valenzuela said his cousin and his grandmother, Ruth Acuña de Valenzuela, were driving home from dinner when a flat tire forced them to the shoulder of the freeway.
“They’re really close, they were really close, so he was always taking her everywhere,” Valenzuela said…