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FILE - This Friday, April 14, 2017, file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows the mangled remains of cars involved in a fatal accident on the Northbound Interstate 17 in Phoenix, Ariz. Arizona transportation officials are moving forward with a first-in-the-nation pilot program that will use thermal camera technology to curb the wrong-way driving problem plaguing the state. The wrong-way detection system will illuminate a sign that notifies the wrong-way driver, and immediately alert the state Department of Public Safety. Arizona Department of Transportation officials will update message boards along the interstate that cautions other drivers of the wrong-way vehicle. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP)
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FILE - This April 14, 2017, file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) shows the mangled remains of cars involved in a fatal accident on the Northbound Interstate 17 in Phoenix, Ariz. Northbound Interstate 17 is closed following the wrong-way crash. The DPS said there have been 737 incidents involving wrong-way drivers reported so far in 2017, resulting in 37 related DUI arrests. Gov. Doug Ducey reacted Wednesday, June 7, to the latest fatal wrong-way crash on a Phoenix-area freeway by ordering state agencies to take steps to combat the deadly problem. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP, File)
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This photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows the mangled remains of cars involved in a fatal accident on the Northbound Interstate 17 in Phoenix, Ariz. on Friday, April 14, 2017. Northbound Interstate 17 is closed following the wrong-way crash that authorities say involved two vehicles and killed three people. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP)
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FILE--This April 28, 2016, file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows one of their vehicles that was hit in a multiple car crash on a freeway near San Simon, Ariz., after blowing dust closed a 62-mile stretch of freeway near the Arizona-New Mexico border, triggering a 12-vehicle accident. Extremely windy conditions and blowing dust have for the third straight day shut down Interstate 10 in Arizona and New Mexico, stalling commerce and sending drivers on a long detour through a much smaller road. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP, file)
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This undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows Vanessa Monique Lopez-Ruiz. An Arizona state trooper who was beaten and shot while responding to a traffic collision on Interstate 10 was attacked Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, by Leonard Pennelas-Escobar, who was responsible for the one-vehicle rollover, authorities said. Pennelas-Escobar's girlfriend Lopez-Ruiz had been ejected in the high-speed rollover and was later pronounced dead. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows Leonard Pennelas-Escobar. An Arizona state trooper who was beaten and shot while responding to a traffic collision on Interstate 10 was attacked Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, by Pennelas-Escobar, who was responsible for the one-vehicle rollover, authorities said. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP)
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This photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows former inmate Daniel Erickson. Erickson, accused of killing a police officer and holing up in an eastern Arizona cabin with a teenage girl believed to have been a hostage, was shot dead Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, by officers after the suspect opened fire, authorities said. The shooting of Erickson came after he pulled a gun Tuesday, Nov. 8, and shot Officer Darrin Reed of the Show Low police department when Read was responding to a report of a disturbance at a restaurant, the department said in a statement. (Arizona Department of Corrections via AP)
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In this photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, vehicles remain at the scene of a traffic accident along Interstate 40 on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, in northern Arizona near Parks, Ariz. Smoke from a prescribed burn closed part of highway and caused numerous accidents. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP)
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This undated photo released by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows a bullet hole in the windshield of a vehicle in Phoenix. Four vehicles traveling on the same freeway in the heart of Phoenix have been struck by gunshots in the last week, and the state police agency is appealing for information from the public as it conducts what it says is a robust investigation. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP)
