{"id":356224,"date":"2026-06-11T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356224\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:45:09","slug":"oakland-pl-se-in-austin-mn-closed-due-to-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356224\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Pl. SE in Austin, MN Closed Due to Fatal Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin, MN (<a href=\"https:\/\/krocnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KROC-AM News<\/a>)-\u00a0Authorities are at the scene of a fatal crash in <a href=\"https:\/\/krocnews.com\/tags\/austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/krocnews.com\/gun-incident-drug-case-sentencing-rochetser-mn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rochester Man Sentenced for Threatening Women with Gun<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far very little information has been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Police Department published a Facebook post about the <a href=\"https:\/\/krocnews.com\/tags\/accidents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fatal crash<\/a> around 4:00 Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/attachment-krocam-social-square.jpg\" alt=\"KROC-AM logo\"\/>Austin Police, State Patrol at Scene of Fatal Crash Thursday Morning<\/p>\n<p>The fatality occurred Oakland Pl. SE between 10th and 11th Streets SE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/krocnews.com\/63-year-old-david-searles-missing-rochester-mn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rochester Man Last Seen in Minneapolis Reported Missing, Statewide Alert Issued<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police did not say how many vehicles were involved. Other details about the deadly crash are not available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Road Closed Until Further Notice<\/p>\n<p>The State Patrol and Austin Fire Department also responded to the scene. Oakland Pl. SE is closed in the area of the crash scene until further notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Austin police say they\u2019ll release more information at a later time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are asking the public to avoid the area and take alternative routes during Thursday morning\u2019s commute.<\/p>\n<p>Best counties to live in Minnesota<a href=\"https:\/\/stacker.com\/minnesota\/best-counties-live-minnesota\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Stacker<\/a> compiled a list of the best counties to live in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Stacker<\/p>\n<p>Biggest cities in Minnesota 150 years ago<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stacker.com\/minnesota\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Stacker<\/a> compiled a list of the biggest cities in Minnesota 150 years ago using data transcribed from the 1870 U.S. Census.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/stacker.com\/stories\/minnesota\/biggest-cities-minnesota-150-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stacker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin, MN (KROC-AM News)-\u00a0Authorities are at the scene of a fatal crash in Austin.\u00a0 See Also: Rochester Man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4846,5994,23,145156,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-356224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-accidents","tag-austin","tag-local-news","tag-minnesota-state-patrol","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}