The Arizona Department of Public Safety identified two people who died Thursday morning in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 17.
DPS officials said 23-year-old Maria Delrefugio Vazquez, of Glendale, was driving southbound in a northbound lane of I-17 shortly before 2 a.m. and struck an oncoming car . The collision killed Vasquez and the passenger of the impacted car, Dayana Viola Aguilar, 29.
The driver of the impacted car, who has not been identified, was in critical condition as of Friday morning, a DPS spokesperson said.
The investigation was ongoing.
This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Authorities identify the 2 people killed in Phoenix wrong-way crash on I-17