Photos: Dust-plagued section of I-10
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Interstate 10's journey through Southern Arizona is plagued by dust storms, which can result in dramatic, tragic and fatal accidents particularly north of Picacho Peak.
A billowing cloud of dust kicked up by gusty winds envelopes a west bound truck as it sweeps over I-10 just north of the Sunshine Blvd interchange near Eloy, Ariz. in 2012. Traffic came to a halt several times on that stretch of the highway due to low visibility from the dust.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Department of Public Safety officers investigate a multiple fatality accident involving six semi tractor-trailers and 19 other vehicles in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 south of Casa Grande, Ariz., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. Authorities say three people are dead and at least 12 others injured after a dust storm led to chain-reaction collisions. (
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Department of Public Safety officers investigate a multiple fatality accident involving 19 vehicles in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 south of Casa Grande, Ariz., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. Authorities say three people are dead and at least 12 others injured after a dust storm led to chain-reaction collisions.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
An officer with the Arizona Department of Public Safety wears a mask to protect himself from dust due to high winds as he investigates an accident involving both trucks and cars in the eastbound lane on I-10 near milepost 212 in April, 2013,
- Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star
As the sun sets, backed-up westbound traffic stretches for miles to the south down the frontage road as drivers are routed around the wreckage of a multi-vehicle daisy-chain wreck on I-10 north of Picacho, Ariz. in 2011.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
A billowing cloud of dust kicked up by gusty winds envelopes a west bound truck as it sweeps over I-10 just north of the Sunshine Blvd interchange near Eloy, Ariz. in 2012. Traffic came to a halt several times on that stretch of the highway due to low visibility from the dust.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
Parched lands in Red Rock, AZ, off about two miles east of I-10 on Park Link Drive can result in lack of soil retention, thereby allowing wind to kick up particles resulting in sand storms.
- David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
A small dust devil kicks up dust off of Park Link Drive in Red Rock, AZ.
- David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Department of Public Safety officers investigate a multiple fatality accident involving six semi tractor-trailers and 19 other vehicles in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 south of Casa Grande, Ariz., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. Authorities say three people are dead and at least 12 others injured after a dust storm led to chain-reaction collisions. (
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Department of Public Safety officers investigate a multiple fatality accident involving 19 vehicles in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 south of Casa Grande, Ariz., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. Authorities say three people are dead and at least 12 others injured after a dust storm led to chain-reaction collisions.
- Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star
Patricia Bohm is walking away from their car with a few of her possessions as she is holding her head and is still very shaken from the multi-vehicle pile-up on I-10 in 1997, the result of a dust storm.
- Benjie Sanders
Dust storm on I-10 in Pinal County near Toltec on Jan. 21, 2010.
- John Humenik / Arizona Daily Star
An officer with the Arizona Department of Public Safety wears a mask to protect himself from dust due to high winds as he investigates an accident involving both trucks and cars in the eastbound lane on I-10 near milepost 212 in April, 2013,
- Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star
As the sun sets, backed-up westbound traffic stretches for miles to the south down the frontage road as drivers are routed around the wreckage of a multi-vehicle daisy-chain wreck on I-10 north of Picacho, Ariz. in 2011.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
DPS Officer Carrick Cook fights the dust and wind as he walks west on the highway from the 16 car multi-vehicle daisy-chain fatal wreck on I-10 north of Picacho, Ariz. in 2011.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
A DPS officer looks through a battered car near the north end of of a multi-vehicle, fatal daisy-chain wreck on westbound I-10 north of Picacho, Ariz., in 2011.
- Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
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