{"id":803749,"date":"2026-05-17T22:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/803749\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:17:15","slug":"investigation-underway-after-man-found-dead-on-phoenix-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/803749\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after man found dead on Phoenix freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 An investigation is underway after a man was found dead on a freeway in central Phoenix late Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Just before midnight, Phoenix police responded to the eastbound lanes of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/JGWn8FebPYhxjVL88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/JGWn8FebPYhxjVL88\">Interstate 10 near 12th Street<\/a> to help state troopers with a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"An investigation is underway after a man was found dead on Interstate 10 in central Phoenix...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DP7WA7M23BC45NEEHUEJI5BAHM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"549\" \/>An investigation is underway after a man was found dead on Interstate 10 in central Phoenix late Saturday night.(Arizona Department of Transportation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Police said the driver told investigators that the man, later identified as 66-year-old Max Jeffrey, had fallen from the overpass before being hit. The driver showed no signs of impairment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Investigators said they have not confirmed whether Jeffrey fell from the overpass or was struck while walking across the freeway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Detectives are working to locate surveillance video or other evidence as the investigation continues.<\/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":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 An investigation is underway after a man was found dead on a freeway in central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":803750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,19292,304318,1589,7183,327201,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-803749","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-death-investigation","13":"tag-pedestrian-crash-in-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-phoenix-news","16":"tag-strange-death-in-arizona","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116592236646270050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803749","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=803749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}