{"id":210929,"date":"2025-09-08T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210929\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:38:11","slug":"man-dies-after-crashing-into-metal-pole-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210929\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after crashing into metal pole in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 A man is dead after crashing his car into a median and a metal pole in west Phoenix early Monday morning, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoenix.gov\/content\/dam\/phoenix\/policesite\/mediaadvisories\/2025\/Fatal%20Collision%20Investigation%2c%202500%20West%20Thomas%20Road.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Phoenix Police Department<\/a> said officers were called to a crash near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/NLpe766dLYPcwxnaA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Black Canyon Highway and Thomas Road<\/a> just before 1 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>When the officers got to the scene, they found a 59-year-old man inside a compact SUV that had crashed.<\/p>\n<p>He was pulled out of the car by Phoenix firefighters, who evaluated him and pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Details of deadly crash in west Phoenix<\/p>\n<p>According to the initial investigation from the Phoenix Police Department\u2019s Vehicular Crimes Unit, the man lost control of his car. He then collided with a raised median in the center of the road and a metal pole.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were released.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into this crash is still underway.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/J_Vinton52\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @J_Vinton52<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Have a story idea or tip? Pass it along to the KTAR News team <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/arizona-news\/fatal-crash-metal-pole-phoenix\/5747706\/mailto:stories@ktar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 A man is dead after crashing his car into a median and a metal pole in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[7155,5229,5643,1587,316,1589,7154,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-210929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-92-3-ktar","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-and-arizona-breaking-news-and-news-headlines-home","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115170371476651453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210929","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=210929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}