Woman Killed When Crawling Across Freeway

A woman was killed while she was attempting to crawl across a freeway in Tempe, Arizona early Friday morning and was struck by three vehicles.

Investigators are in the middle of attempting to determine the exact cause of the accident, and if the unidentified woman was injured prior to the final cause of death.

Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves says the woman was crawling across the westbound HOV lane on U.S. 60 when she was hit by an SUV at 4:47 a.m. She was than struck by another vehicle that then rear-ended the SUV as it braked. A third car that was trying to avoid the collision ended up running the woman over as well.

Graves says investigators believe the woman was injured prior to being hit but do not know how she ended up on the freeway.