{"id":227355,"date":"2025-09-14T23:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227355\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T23:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:51:12","slug":"motorcyclist-dead-after-hitting-waymo-near-asu-in-tempe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227355\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dead after hitting Waymo near ASU in Tempe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 A motorcyclist was hit and killed after striking a self-driving Waymo near Arizona State University\u2019s Tempe campus early on Sunday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/kTPj6sQ6KExKKqz49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lemon Street and Rural Road<\/a> around 1:30 a.m. for a crash involving two cars and a motorcycle, according to the Tempe Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist, who has not yet been identified, was taken to a nearby hospital with injuries. He was later pronounced dead, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>AZFamily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/09\/14\/1-person-killed-multi-car-crash-near-asu-tempe-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> that the other vehicle involved \u201cstruck the motorcyclist and continued driving\u201d away from the scene after the motorcyclist had hit the Waymo.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was provided.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pwmoses11\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @pwmoses11<\/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\/motorcyclist-dead-waymo-asu\/5750089\/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 motorcyclist was hit and killed after striking a self-driving Waymo near Arizona State University\u2019s Tempe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227356,"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-227355","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\/115205340154808256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227355","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=227355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}