{"id":189118,"date":"2026-04-08T02:26:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189118\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:26:48","slug":"wrong-way-driver-dead-after-fiery-crash-on-us-60-near-queen-valley-dps-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189118\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way driver dead after fiery crash on US 60 near Queen Valley, DPS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">QUEEN VALLEY, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 A man is dead after a fiery wrong-way crash on U.S. 60 east of the Valley Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Just before 7:30 a.m., state troopers responded to the two-car crash on <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/kLDoyf1FjuqHX6PW6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/kLDoyf1FjuqHX6PW6\">US 60 near El Camino Viejo<\/a>, which is near the community of Queen Valley located between Gold Canyon and Superior. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the wrong-way driver was pronounced dead at the scene. He\u2019s since been identified as 19-year-old Edwin Orlando Martinez-Caudillo of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The other driver wasn\u2019t seriously hurt, DPS says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The roadway was closed for several hours as authorities investigated the crash and cleared the scene. It reopened about six hours later.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: Eastbound US 60 is now OPEN near Queen Valley (MP 209).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArizonaDOT\/status\/2040524046589387087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEEN VALLEY, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 A man is dead after a fiery wrong-way crash on U.S. 60 east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[74646,5900,9,24,63,24742,74645,122,124,123,74644,74643,74647],"class_list":{"0":"post-189118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-arizona-traffic","9":"tag-azfamily","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-phoenix-news","14":"tag-pinal-county-news","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-serious-crash","19":"tag-serious-crash-on-us-60","20":"tag-us-60-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}