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3 Phoenix college students killed in wrong-way driver crash

PHOENIX (AP) — Three Phoenix college freshmen have died after being struck by a wrong-way driver on a highway. The Arizona Department of Public Safety told local news outlets they received reports around 4 a.m. Monday about a driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 17, roughly 30 miles north of Phoenix. The wrong-way car crashed into three vehicles, including one carrying three Grand Canyon University students. Two of them died at the scene. The third died at the hospital. The school identified them as Abriauna Hoffman and Magdalyn (Maggie) Ogden, both 18 and both from Clarkston, Washington, and Hunter Balberdi, 19, of Wailuku, Hawaii. The suspected wrong-way driver survived.

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