A crash has blocked the right lane blocked on Interstate 17, north-bound from mile post 295.0, 2 miles south of McGuireville Rest Areas.
The accident was reported at 10:16 a.m., Sunday, April 24. The backup reaches to Camp Verde.
Traffic is being detoured. If you are heading to destinations in the Verde Valley, the Arizona Department of Transportion recommend exiting Interstate 17 at State Route 260.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."
