SUV rolls over on Vultee Arch Road1 min read

Christopher Fox Graham/Larson Newspapers

A Honda Ridgeline sport utility vehicle rolled over on Forest Road 152, aka Vultee Arch Road, around 3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 30.

No one was seriously injured in the rollover accident.

A Honda Ridgeline rests in hole just off Vultee Arch Road, aka Forest Road 152 north of Dry Creek Road, around 3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 30. No one was seriously injured in the accident.According to the passengers, which included a resident of Phoenix, two from Flagstaff, one from Utah and two dogs, the Honda Ridgeline sport utility vehicle’s passenger side front wheel dropped over the edge of hole while heading southbound along Vultee Arch Road.

Due to the particulars of the location and depth of the hole, the Honda flipped completely over.

The hikers had just come from the Devil’s Bridge Trail off Forest Road 152, aka Vultee Arch Road, north of Dry Creek Road just outside Sedona city limits.

A U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officer waited with the passengers for a tow that truck arrived around 3:30 p.m.

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Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock 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 a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."

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