One person died and two others suffered life-threatening injuries in a car crash on East Aviation Parkway early Friday morning, Tucson police said.
Officials arrived on the scene of the single-car crash shortly before 4 a.m. and found a 1996 Acura 2.5 TL in the dirt area east of the roadway in the 4100 block of East Aviation, police said in a news release. Three people were found outside of the car.
The driver, Jose Guillermo Mendez-Orduno, 23, died at the scene, the news release said. Authorities took the two passengers to St. Josephβs Hospital.
Mendez-Orduno was driving eastbound at a high speed and failed to negotiate a curve, causing the car to hit a curb and to flip, police said.
All three people were not using seatbelts and were thrown from the car, the news release said.
An investigation is ongoing.
