{"id":1021869,"date":"2026-08-24T22:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021869\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:28:31","slug":"2-men-critically-hurt-after-crash-in-central-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021869\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men critically hurt after crash in central Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Two men are fighting for their lives after a two-car crash in central Phoenix late Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Just after 11 a.m., first responders were called to multiple reports of the crash near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/sswiiuTD4Ax7UNfe7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/sswiiuTD4Ax7UNfe7\">19th Avenue and Thomas Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Phoenix police say that when crews arrived, they pulled two men from one of the vehicles. Both were rushed to the hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Two men were critically injured and a woman was hospitalized after a two-car crash near 19th...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/UZLEEA2EZ5BQLBLD5VVEZDA24I.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"548\" \/>Two men were critically injured and a woman was hospitalized after a two-car crash near 19th Avenue and Thomas Road in Phoenix late Monday night.(Arizona&#8217;s Family)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The woman who was driving the second car was also taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Authorities are working to determine what led up to the crash, as well as whether impairment was involved. Police are asking drivers to avoid the area, as the intersection is expected to remain closed during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Two men are fighting for their lives after a two-car crash in central Phoenix late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1021870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[408881,5229,5643,1587,7182,408883,408882,1589,7183,119924,7319,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1021869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-19th-avenue-and-thomas-road","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-crash-in-central-phoenix","tag-man-seriously-hurt-in-crash","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-news","tag-serious-crash","tag-traffic-alert","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117152850350695725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}