At least one person killed after truck drives off road near Midgley Bridge1 min read

At least one person was killed when a black pickup truck went off the road heading northbound near Midgley Bridge on Friday, March 20, into a steep ravine.

The truck went off the road at a high rate of speed. The accident occurred near Midgley Bridge, outside Sedona city limits. Sedona police, Coconino County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Sedona Fire District crews arrived at the scene, but the incident command is now under the jurisdiction of the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

Crime scene investigators are at the scene. It is unclear when the accident occurred, but crews arrived before 1 p.m.

The Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office is en route as of 2 p.m.

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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