Arizona Dust Storm Pile-Up Leaves Three Dead

Three people have been killed and a dozen more injured after a dust storm led to a pile-up in Arizona.

Officials said 19 vehicles, including at least six trucks, were involved in the chain-reaction crash.

The accident took place on Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson.

Officials said at least one person was pinned between two

"One truck hit another truck. Cars start piling into each other, and they pushed that one truck right into me and off to the side of the road," witness Henry Wallace told KSAZ-TV.

"I couldn't see anything because the (dust) was so thick, but I could just hear it: boom, boom, boom, boom, boom."

Authorities said at least one passenger car was pinned between two big rigs.

One of the three people killed has been named by officials as Gordon Lee Smith of Mead, Washington.

Officials said Mr Smith's wife was among the injured, but her condition was not immediately known.

The National Weather Service issued a dust-storm warning shortly before the collision, with reported wind gusts up to 30mph, KSAZ reported.

Officials urged people faced with similar conditions to slow down or pull off the road.

"You can have someone who can be the first into the dust event and do everything right," one official at the scene said.

"The problem is the second, the third, the fourth that go in ... it's just a wall of dust and they don't realise there's something in the middle."

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