Update: 4 injured in SR 347 crash

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A two-vehicle collision left four people injured Thursday night on State Route 347.

Some time past 7 p.m. a truck and a car collided in what witnesses said was a case of one vehicle pulling out in front of oncoming traffic.

The intersection, which is Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard on the east side and the south entry to Alterra Parkway on the west, does not have traffic lights.

 Maricopa Police Department spokesman Ricardo Alvarado said four people were transported to Chandler Regional Medical Center.  Their conditions are unknown. Alvarado confirmed witness accounts of the nature of the crash as a T-bone collision.

Raquel Hendrickson
Raquel, a.k.a. Rocky, is a sixth-generation Arizonan who spent her formative years in the Missouri Ozarks. After attending Temple University in Philadelphia, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and has been in the newspaper business since 1990. She has been a sports editor, general-assignment reporter, business editor, arts & entertainment editor, education reporter, government reporter and managing editor. After 16 years in the Verde Valley-Sedona, she moved to Maricopa in 2014. She loves the outdoors, the arts, great books and all kinds of animals.