Family fight ends in death of truck driver
Ricardo Castro, 35, from Goodyear, Arizona, has been identified as the driver a Honda Accord, whose family fight caused a series of car accidents just after 11 p.m. on November 20, which led to the death of one truck driver and landed five children n the hospital.
Castro was driving on I-10 with his wife in the passenger seat and his mother-in-law and daughter in the back seat. Castro stopped on the eastbound off-ramp to Miller Road when the family fight broke out and told the back seat passengers to get out of the car.
Castro then sped back onto Interstate 10 from Miller Road at a high rate of speed and eventually rear-ended a GMC Yukon carrying six people. Five of those passengers were children and all five children were ejected.
All but one of the occupants from the Yukon have since been released from the hospital and all are expected to survive.
At 11:45 p.m., just 45 minutes after the previous wreck, a fatal crash occurred between three semi trucks and four passenger cars.
A semi-truck carrying furniture crashed into another semi that was stopped in the back up as a result of the aforementioned wreck. The crash between the two semis caused them to be pushed into four other cars and an additional semi truck. The semi carrying furniture caught fire immediately after the initial impact killing the driver.
As a result of both of these wrecks, I-10 was closed at Miller Road from 11:45 p.m. to 11:45 a.m. Traffic was re-routed onto State Route 85 and through the Town of Buckeye. Traffic re-entered Interstate 10 at Jack Rabbit Trail.
Castro suffered serious injuries and was been admitted into the hospital. He was arrested by detectives from the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s Vehicle Crimes Unit this week in connection with the multi-vehicle crash along Interstate 10 near Watson Road last Wednesday.
Castro was booked into the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office 4th Avenue Jail in Phoenix on multiple felony charges to include seven counts of aggravated assault and two counts of felony endangerment.