{"id":913554,"date":"2026-07-05T05:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/913554\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T05:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:51:16","slug":"deadly-crash-closed-major-transition-ramp-near-tempe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/913554\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly crash closed major transition ramp near Tempe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A deadly crash closed a major freeway transition ramp near Tempe on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The crash was reported around 1 p.m. on the westbound Loop 202 (Red Mountain Freeway)<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/2nomHaRyTyECNX8D7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/2nomHaRyTyECNX8D7\"> transition ramp to northbound Loop 101<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Mesa Fire and Medical Department responded and found one heavily damaged vehicle at the scene. There was one person inside the vehicle who was pronounced dead at the scene, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A crash closed a major freeway transition ramp in Tempe on Saturday afternoon.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/KLFZRN7JM5AE5EEI7Y62Q77MAU.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>A crash closed a major freeway transition ramp in Tempe on Saturday afternoon.(Arizona Department of Transportation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The Arizona Department of Public Safety says the transition ramp was closed while troopers investigate. <\/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":"TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 A deadly crash closed a major freeway transition ramp near Tempe on Saturday afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":913555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,49853,30763,1587,7182,358857,60768,67989,1589,52719,7183,369305,270290,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-913554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-department-of-public-safety","tag-arizona-news","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-deadly-crash-in-tempe","tag-loop-101","tag-loop-202","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-crash","tag-phoenix-news","tag-serious-crash-in-tempe","tag-tempe-crash","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116865812952473122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913554","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=913554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}