{"id":593993,"date":"2026-02-16T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/593993\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:31:15","slug":"one-dead-one-seriously-injured-in-wrong-way-crash-on-sr-143-in-tempe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/593993\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, one seriously injured in wrong-way crash on SR 143 in Tempe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\"><strong>TEMPE, Ariz.<\/strong> &#8211; A person was killed and another was seriously hurt when a wrong-way driver caused a head-on crash early Sunday morning in Tempe, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The Feb. 15 crash happened just after 1:15 a.m. in the southbound lanes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/33%C2%B024&#039;35.2%22N+111%C2%B058&#039;21.0%22W\/@33.4097759,-111.9773689,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m7!1m2!2m1!1ssr+143!3m3!8m2!3d33.409776!4d-111.972498?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>SR 143 near Broadway Road<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">&#8220;There is one fatality and another serious injury as a result of the collision,&#8221; Arizona Dept. of Public Safety says.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Troopers didn&#8217;t say whether the wrong-way driver was killed or hurt, or if it was the occupants of the other car. They also didn&#8217;t say if anyone else was in the car with the wrong-way driver.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">No names have been released in this case.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/33%C2%B024&#039;35.2%22N+111%C2%B058&#039;21.0%22W\/@33.4097759,-111.9773689,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m7!1m2!2m1!1ssr+143!3m3!8m2!3d33.409776!4d-111.972498?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Map of the area where the crash happened<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/tempe\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tempe<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, Ariz. &#8211; A person was killed and another was seriously hurt when a wrong-way driver caused a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":593994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,26228,314,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-593993","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-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-tempe","16":"tag-traffic","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116080324540714054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593993","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=593993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}