{"id":676089,"date":"2026-03-23T13:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/676089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:46:19","slug":"collision-in-phoenix-leaves-motorcyclist-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/676089\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision in Phoenix leaves motorcyclist dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 A motorcyclist is dead following a crash in Phoenix on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<p>According to the Phoenix Police Department, officers responded to a crash around 3:09 p.m. near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/N+7th+St+%26+E+Piute+Ave,+Phoenix,+AZ+85024\/@33.6498701,-112.0371561,10236m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x872b6fcbf8eac76b:0x55e41e5d2ba9a323!8m2!3d33.6632197!4d-112.0656348!16s%2Fg%2F11gdswdchd!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Seventh Street and Piute Avenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, officers found 39-year-old Norman Absher, who had been driving the motorcycle that had been hit by a truck. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where he later died. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the truck remained at the scene and was evaluated for impairment, but showed no signs of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they believe the driver of the truck made a left turn in front of Absher, which led to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the speed of the motorcycle may have contributed to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Leasure96\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Leasure96<\/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\/collision-phoenix-motorcyclist-dead\/5838954\/mailto:stories@ktar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" width=\"830\" height=\"100\" alt=\"newsletter sign up\" style=\"display:block;margin:0 auto;max-width:100%;height:auto;\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n<\/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 is dead following a crash in Phoenix on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. RELATED STORIES&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":676090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-676089","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-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116278800389093666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676089","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=676089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}