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KINGMAN, AZ (AZFamily) — A semi-truck driver has been arrested after a deadly collision involving another semi-truck on a northern Arizona freeway.
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The collision was reported just before 8 a.m. Thursday in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 near milepost 60, about 10 miles east of Kingman.
According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, 24-year-old Bhupender Bhupender of Fresno, Calif., was driving a semi-truck westbound on I-40 when he veered toward the median due to fatigue. DPS says he crossed into eastbound traffic and into the path of an eastbound semi-truck being driven by 35-year-old Rathor Sunny, also of Fresno.
DPS says Sunny’s truck crashed through Bhupender’s trailer. Sunny was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Bhupender was taken to a hospital and treated. He’s since been booked into the Mohave County Jail on one count of manslaughter.
The eastbound lanes of I-40 were closed for about three hours..
UPDATE: I-40 EB has reopened at MM 60. Please allow time for the queue to clear.
— Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) July 9, 2026
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