Four crashes within an hour on Interstate 17 southbound

(AZ511 photo)

Four crashes within an hour on Interstate 17 jammed up the southbound traffic on Sunday night.

What we know:

Two of the crashes happened near Northern Avenue and two others happened two miles south near Bethany Home Road.

One of the crashes near Bethany Home was a rollover crash with minor injuries and blocked traffic on the right lanes as the cleanup and investigation.

Shortly after, another crashed happened a few hundred feet north at the Bethany Home Road underpass.

One of the crashes on Northern Avenue involved a motorcycle that was sprawled in the middle of the road, also on southbound I-17.

There was minimal information on the fourth crash but it was believed to be near the Northern Avenue underpass.

Map of the area of the four crashes:

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