{"id":475185,"date":"2025-12-27T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475185\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:19:12","slug":"eastbound-loop-202-reopens-after-early-morning-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475185\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastbound Loop 202 reopens after early-morning crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Eastbound Loop 202 was reopened after it was closed early Saturday morning in Mesa due to a crash, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred near McDowell Road, leading to officials diverting traffic off the freeway at Gilbert Road, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">*CLOSURE*<\/p>\n<p>Loop 202 Red Mountain eastbound is CLOSED in Mesa.<\/p>\n<p>The closure is due to a crash after McDowell Road.<\/p>\n<p>For real-time traffic info, download the AZ511 app:<br \/>\ud83d\udcf7 Apple: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YMcnUEep0U\">https:\/\/t.co\/YMcnUEep0U<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udcf7 Android: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9oINS4xP1h\">https:\/\/t.co\/9oINS4xP1h<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vOznaJjaYE\">pic.twitter.com\/vOznaJjaYE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArizonaDOT\/status\/2004904584905388035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The closure began around 3:30 a.m., according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.az511.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AZ 511<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ADOT announced it had reopened about four hours later, as the westbound lanes remained open throughout the closure.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest KTAR News 92.3 FM\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/text-alerts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traffic alerts<\/a>\u00a0sent straight to your phone by texting \u201cTRAFFIC\u201d to 620620.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamdamonallred\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @iamdamonallred<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><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 Eastbound Loop 202 was reopened after it was closed early Saturday morning in Mesa due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":475186,"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-475185","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\/115792208050425422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475185","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=475185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}