{"id":337793,"date":"2026-06-16T01:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337793\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T01:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:27:21","slug":"driver-rescued-after-trying-to-cross-flooded-road-in-south-travis-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337793\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver rescued after trying to cross flooded road in south Travis County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin&#8217;s emergency crews responded to a least on water rescue on Monday morning after heavy rains closed dozens of low-water crossings across Central Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Austin-Travis County Emergency Services responded to the 10100 block of Old San Antonio Road at I-35, after a driver got their car stuck in floodwaters, after they drove around a barricade blocking off the road.<\/p>\n<p>ATCEMS said that crews rescued the driver. Officials said the driver only had minor injuries.  <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/atxfloods.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ATXFloods.com<\/a>, the crossing closed at 4:22 a.m. Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p>The scene was cleared before 5:30 a.m. The vehicle remained on the flooded roadway. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Austin Fire assisted in the rescue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin&#8217;s emergency crews responded to a least on water rescue on Monday morning after heavy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-337793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337793","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=337793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}