{"id":252836,"date":"2026-04-16T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252836\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:39:10","slug":"new-details-emerge-in-deadly-crash-on-i-35-near-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252836\/","title":{"rendered":"New details emerge in deadly crash on I-35 near Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A DPS spokesperson said in a statement to MySA that troopers are currently investigating the deadly\u00a0crash, which officials say involved a pedestrian on the main portion of the southbound I-35 lanes just before Grand Avenue Parkway. DPS said all southbound lanes of IH-35 near the crash have since been reopened, but were closed for several hours Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Travis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office\u00a0previously\u00a0said it was also on scene investigating the crash. It&#8217;s unclear what caused the crash or how many people were involved. DPS said no further information is available at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SigAlert first flagged the incident as a major crash that resulted in stopped traffic, with anticipated delays upwards of an hour. The crash was reported on the platform around 5:19 a.m. Thursday between Grand Avenue Parkway and FM 1825, another popular roadway in\u00a0Pflugerville.<\/p>\n<p>At the time,\u00a0SigAlert warned drivers that traffic had\u00a0backed up to RM 1431, Chandler Road and Exit 256 on I-35.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MySA is following this story and will provide updates on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/traffic\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">traffic page<\/a> as they become available.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A DPS spokesperson said in a statement to MySA that troopers are currently investigating the deadly\u00a0crash, which officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2108,820,59494],"class_list":{"0":"post-252836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-mysaaustin","12":"tag-mysastaff","13":"tag-mysatranspo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252836","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=252836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}