{"id":796201,"date":"2026-05-14T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796201\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:29:15","slug":"state-route-347-closed-after-morning-rush-hour-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796201\/","title":{"rendered":"State Route 347 closed after morning rush hour crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northbound State Route 347, the main route from Maricopa to the Phoenix area, is closed after a rush hour crash Thursday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The closure is <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/K9qWyEDFe7nk7djQ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">after Casa Blanca Road<\/a>, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists should expect delays or seek alternative routes.<\/p>\n<p>The crash didn\u2019t affect the southbound lanes of SR 347.<\/p>\n<p>There was no estimate for how long the northbound lanes would be closed.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest KTAR News 92.3 FM <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/text-alerts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">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 nofollow\" 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\/state-route-347-closed-rush-hour\/5864588\/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":"Northbound State Route 347, the main route from Maricopa to the Phoenix area, is closed after a rush&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":796202,"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-796201","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\/116573881539877123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796201","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=796201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}