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The crash happened around 3:27 p.m. on westbound Interstate 40 near milepost 159.5 in Williams, Arizona, on a snow and ice-covered interstate.
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Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
The crash happened around 3:27 p.m. on westbound Interstate 40 near milepost 159.5 in Williams, Ariz.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2025
The crash happened around 3:27 p.m. on westbound Interstate 40 near milepost 159.5 in Williams, Arizona.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
Alameda County sheriff’s deputies and that agency’s helicopter joined in the pursuit with Oakland officers, which went onto westbound Interstate 580, then Highway 13 before the suspect took the Thornhill Drive exit and kept driving into the hills at high speed.
—Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
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Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
The crash happened around 3:27 p.m. on westbound Interstate 40 near milepost 159.5 in Williams, Ariz.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2025
The crash happened around 3:27 p.m. on westbound Interstate 40 near milepost 159.5 in Williams, Arizona.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
Alameda County sheriff’s deputies and that agency’s helicopter joined in the pursuit with Oakland officers, which went onto westbound Interstate 580, then Highway 13 before the suspect took the Thornhill Drive exit and kept driving into the hills at high speed.
—Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Westbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/westbound. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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westbound
adjective
west·bound
ˈwes(t)-ˌbau̇nd 
: going west
a westbound train
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