{"id":801274,"date":"2026-05-16T19:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801274\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:54:15","slug":"loop-303-reopens-in-west-valley-following-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801274\/","title":{"rendered":"Loop 303 reopens in West Valley following closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southbound Loop 303 reopened in Waddell after an early-morning closure on Saturday due to a crash, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The West Valley crash occurred just after Northern Parkway, ADOT said.<\/p>\n<p>The closure began around 2:45 a.m., according to <a href=\"https:\/\/az511.com\/Event\/Closures\/758917?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AZ511<\/a>. The freeway reopened around 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: All lanes are now open.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArizonaDOT\/status\/2055649731305738658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">May 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The northbound side of the freeway was unaffected by the crash.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest KTAR News 92.3 FM\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/text-alerts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">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 nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @iamdamonallred<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <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":"Southbound Loop 303 reopened in Waddell after an early-morning closure on Saturday due to a crash, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":801275,"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-801274","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\/116586013074186200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801274","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=801274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}