{"id":116766,"date":"2025-08-03T23:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116766\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:23:12","slug":"2-dead-following-early-morning-west-phoenix-crash-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116766\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead following early morning west Phoenix crash: PD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; Phoenix Police say they are investigating an early morning crash that resulted in two people&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Per a statement, officers responded at around 5:56 a.m. on Aug. 3 to a crash involving two vehicles in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/VEshujy6GBhPM5Fy7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">57th Avenue and Indian School Road<\/a>. When officers arrived, they found a woman, who they identified as 44-year-old Phyliss Wauneka, unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;The Phoenix Fire Department arrived on the scene and pronounced Phyliss deceased,&#8221; read a portion of the statement. &#8220;A passenger was identified as Antonio Wauneka from the same vehicle. He was transported to a nearby hospital in extremely critical condition, where he later died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police identified Antonio as a 37-year-old.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;The driver of the other vehicle stayed on scene, and detectives evaluated the man and did not identify signs of impairment,&#8221; investigators wrote.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;Preliminary information suggests Phyliss was attempting to cross Indian School Road northbound on 57th Avenue from a stop sign when they were struck by the vehicle,&#8221; police wrote. &#8220;Speed is suspected to be a factor in this collision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police say an investigation remains ongoing, and that charging decisions &#8220;will not be determined until the conclusion of the investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Area where the crash happened      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; Phoenix Police say they are investigating an early morning crash that resulted in two people&#8217;s death.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-116766","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-maricopa-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114967412975675339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116766","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=116766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}