The driver had reportedly walked away from the crash site and wasn't found until hours later, when he was caught knocking on the door of a home in Black Canyon City.
A semi truck driver was likely impaired when he crashed on Interstate 17, causing commuters to be stranded on the highway for hours overnight, according to the Arizona Dept. of Public Safety.
A tractor-trailer was hauling freight when the driver, "possibly impaired by drugs," lost control on a turn and crashed, blocking all the lanes and causing severe damage to the semi. The axles became completely detached from the trailer, Graves said. "There was no place to get vehicles around the collision," Graves said. "There was also difficulty in getting an available heavy duty tow truck to the scene to remove the semi. Eventually we had to bring equipment in from Phoenix and it had to travel wrong way to get to the scene."
Troopers originally thought the semi driver had died and spent a significant amount of time using K-9s and a helicopter to find him.
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