{"id":175761,"date":"2026-02-22T20:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175761\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:56:31","slug":"major-crash-shuts-down-u-s-281-in-san-antonio-txdot-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175761\/","title":{"rendered":"Major crash shuts down U.S. 281 in San Antonio, TxDOT says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A major crash has shut down several lanes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/traffic\/article\/281-closed-san-antonio-21289177.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:U.S. Highway 281;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">U.S. Highway 281<\/a> at San Pedro Avenue around 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 22, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/its.txdot.gov\/its\/District\/SAT\/incidents\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas Department of Transportation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Texas Department of Transportation<\/a> (TxDOT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The accident occurred around 10:15 p.m. in the southbound lanes of Highway 281 at San Pedro. It has closed several southbound lanes, according to TxDOT&#8217;s incident report on its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TxDOT is asking drivers to use an alternate route as the highway is closed at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Traffic monitoring website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigalert.com\/?lat=29.53153&amp;lon=-98.47716&amp;z=-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SigAlert reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">SigAlert reports<\/a> that traffic is moving at about six miles per hour and is backed up to Nakoma Drive and Bitters Road. SigAlert reports to expect delays up to 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It&#8217;s unclear how the crash occurred or if any injuries were sustained due to\u00a0the collision. MySA has reached out for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Make sure to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/traffic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MySA traffic page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MySA traffic page<\/a> for the latest transportation news, including traffic delays and construction projects around San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/traffic\/article\/281-closed-san-antonio-21728368.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Major crash shuts down U.S. 281 in San Antonio, TxDOT says;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Major crash shuts down U.S. 281 in San Antonio, TxDOT says<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major crash has shut down several lanes on U.S. Highway 281 at San Pedro Avenue around 10:30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32512,82,84,83,53804,70874,26023,9237,271],"class_list":["post-175761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-highway-281","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-pedro","tag-sigalert","tag-southbound-lanes","tag-texas-department-of-transportation","tag-txdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175761","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=175761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}