{"id":803132,"date":"2026-05-17T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/803132\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:39:19","slug":"3-critical-3-others-hurt-after-fiery-crash-on-highway-near-cave-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/803132\/","title":{"rendered":"3 critical, 3 others hurt after fiery crash on highway near Cave Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>CAVE CREEK, AZ (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A highway north of Phoenix is closed Sunday morning following a violent overnight crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Just before 11 p.m., first responders were called to the two-car crash near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/kEKsi5mdYoStwi188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/kEKsi5mdYoStwi188\">Carefree Highway and 12th Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities arrived and found a pickup truck and a sedan on fire, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Six people were taken to a hospital, with three in critical condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies say the at-fault driver is being investigated for possible impairment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Arizona\u2019s Family crews at the scene saw extensive fire damage to both vehicles. Detectives were also seen placing evidence markers as they worked to determine what led to the crash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A serious crash closed Carefree Highway early Sunday morning.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/UV4T6REHT5GJZJ7W472KBX5U5M.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"546\" \/>A serious crash closed Carefree Highway early Sunday morning.(Arizona&#8217;s Family)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies say Carefree Highway will be closed in both directions from 7th Street to 12th Street for several hours during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAVE CREEK, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 A highway north of Phoenix is closed Sunday morning following a violent overnight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":803133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,327007,327008,17807,327010,1589,7183,327009,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-803132","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-azfamily","12":"tag-carefree-highway-crash","13":"tag-cave-creek-crash","14":"tag-fiery-crash","15":"tag-overnight-crash-carefree-highway","16":"tag-phoenix","17":"tag-phoenix-news","18":"tag-serious-crash-in-arizona","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116590672722312186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803132","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=803132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}