{"id":415921,"date":"2026-07-29T00:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415921\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:57:13","slug":"los-angeles-traffic-big-rig-blows-tire-on-northbound-405-freeway-snarls-traffic-along-sepulveda-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415921\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles traffic: Big rig blows tire on northbound 405 Freeway, snarls traffic along Sepulveda Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, July 29, 2026 12:28AM<\/p>\n<p>Traffic has slowed to a crawl at the Sepulveda Pass after a big rig blew a tire and went across all northbound lanes into an embankment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Traffic slowed to a crawl at the Sepulveda Pass on Tuesday afternoon after a big rig blew a tire and went across all northbound lanes into an embankment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The big rig reportedly hit a Cadillac in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">AIR7 video from shortly after 3 p.m. showed a lengthy traffic backup on the freeway near Mulholland Drive, where it appeared crews had a couple northbound lanes blocked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Although a SigAlert was never issued and it appeared the lane closures were kept at just a couple of lanes, traffic was still snarled in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">By later in the afternoon, it appeared conditions had improved, though traffic is normally slow in the area during the evening commute.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, July 29, 2026 12:28AM Traffic has slowed to a crawl at the Sepulveda Pass after a big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[166401,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-415921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-166401","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415921","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=415921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}