{"id":115375,"date":"2025-08-03T10:41:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T10:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115375\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T10:41:26","slug":"loop-202-reopens-hours-after-fiery-multi-car-crash-near-laveen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115375\/","title":{"rendered":"Loop 202 reopens hours after fiery multi-car crash near Laveen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A Valley freeway has reopened hours after a crash resulted in a fire early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">According to the Department of Public Safety, multiple vehicles were involved in the collision near the Loop 202 South Mountain near Estrella Drive shortly after 5 a.m. Traffic cameras showed one vehicle on fire as emergency crews worked to put out flames.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Traffic cameras showed one vehicle on fire as emergency crews worked to put out flames.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ENDHFKR5OBBFZA53OAPZBQD5MU.JPG\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Traffic cameras showed one vehicle on fire as emergency crews worked to put out flames.(ADOT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Several more vehicles were damaged, including a car that flipped upside down. DPS says injuries were reported, but it\u2019s unknown how many people were hurt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Troopers placed dozens of evidence markers on the freeway and around a blue pickup truck. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The freeway was shut down for over five hours as crews cleaned up the extensive wreckage, but reopened around 10:30 a.m. ADOT is advising drivers to be patient as the backup clears. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: The freeway is open. Please allow a bit of extra time for the queue to clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArizonaDOT\/status\/1951697735746543682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 A Valley freeway has reopened hours after a crash resulted in a fire early Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,21184,72363,67989,72364,72362,1589,7183,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-115375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-azfamily","12":"tag-freeway-crash","13":"tag-laveen-freeway","14":"tag-loop-202","15":"tag-loop-202-closure","16":"tag-loop-202-south-mountain","17":"tag-phoenix","18":"tag-phoenix-news","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114964416696575733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115375","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=115375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}