{"id":77957,"date":"2025-07-20T12:21:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77957\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:21:53","slug":"loop-202-in-east-mesa-reopens-after-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77957\/","title":{"rendered":"Loop 202 in east Mesa reopens after deadly crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2013 The westbound Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway in east Mesa reopened around noon Wednesday after a fatal crash that morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The closure was initiated around 9:15 a.m. at Broadway Road, east of Hawes Road, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ArizonaDOT\/status\/1945558520600100962\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Arizona Department of Transportation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Loop 202 eastbound lanes were not impacted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/traffic\/driver-seriously-hurt-after-fiery-crash-along-loop-202-in-east-mesa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC15 reported<\/a> that the driver of a Ford F-150 died after hitting a bridge barrier, which caused the truck to catch fire.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were made available.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest KTAR News 92.3 FM <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/text-alerts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traffic alerts<\/a> sent straight to your phone by texting \u201cTRAFFIC\u201d to 620620.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kstonezone\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @kstonezone<\/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-traffic\/loop-202-mesa-crash-reopens\/5728943\/mailto:stories@ktar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/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\/06\/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\/06\/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 \u2013 The westbound Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway in east Mesa reopened around noon Wednesday after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77958,"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-77957","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\/114885542052507552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77957","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=77957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}