GRAHAM COUNTY — Two people were injured in a single-vehicle crash on Safford Bryce Road on Tuesday, June 3.
The incident occurred just before 8 a.m. The juvenile driver said he was traveling southbound at about 35 miles an hour, when he realized he was traveling too fast to negotiate a curve. He said the vehicle skidded before going off the road and flipping into a farm’s concrete culvert.
One passenger, who was transferred to Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center for bruising of his lung, scrapes and back pain, said he couldn’t remember what happened prior to the crash.
However the two other passengers, one of whom suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene by Lifeline Ambulance, affirmed the driver’s story.
A driver in a vehicle in front of the one that crash said she saw the vehicle come up behind her at a high rate of speed and get very close to her car before the vehicle skidded off the road at the curve.
The driver was cited for failure to control a vehicle in order to avoid a collision and released.
