{"id":167405,"date":"2026-02-17T00:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167405\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T00:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:31:12","slug":"crash-shuts-down-texas-71-in-south-austin-causing-major-traffic-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167405\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash shuts down Texas 71 in South Austin, causing major traffic delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A multi-vehicle crash on Texas 71 in South Austin is causing &#8220;significant delays&#8221; in traffic, the Travis County Sheriffs Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash spans both eastbound and westbound lanes near Bob Wire Road, shutting down the highway in both directions, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Texas Department of Public Safety is en route, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story; check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A multi-vehicle crash on Texas 71 in South Austin is causing &#8220;significant delays&#8221; in traffic, the Travis County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,11297,134,133,4522,27,16908],"class_list":["post-167405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-american-statesman","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-south-austin","tag-texas","tag-westbound-lanes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}