Sarah “Charlie” Royer, 30, of Mesa, was the driver in the crash that killed her boyfriend , 29-year-old Robert Jeffrey Pifer, according to Royer’s mother, Dalene Hood.

Hood told InMaricopa today that her daughter was in the middle of moving to California to be with Pifer when the wreck occurred early Saturday morning. Royer was driving a Honda Civic westbound on State Route 238 with moving boxes in the car when a silver Audi SUV traveling eastbound crossed into their lane, Hood said.

“The car looked like someone dumped over a bucket of Legos,” said Hood, 59, also of Mesa. “I didn’t know a glove box and console could be outside of a car and in that many pieces.”

Hood recalled hearing Pifer’s last utterances in a phone call moments after the crash.

“I heard him screaming. I heard him

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