AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Travis County deputies are at the scene of a fatal crash on SH 130 near the Tesla Gigafactory.<\/p>\n
The Travis County Sheriff’s Office first reported the crash at around 4:50 a.m. Wednesday morning. Officials say the crash happened on the southbound side of the highway at the Tesla Road ramp.<\/p>\n
POLL | What impact will the Austin Light Rail project have?<\/a><\/p>\n The Tesla Road ramp is closed, the Sheriff’s Office says. TxDOT reports that all southbound lanes of SH 130 in the area are closed as well.<\/p>\n Drivers are told to expect delays in the area while officials work the scene.<\/p>\n The area near the Tesla Road exit has a history of deadly crashes. <\/p>\n Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n Two people died in September 2025<\/a> in a high-speed crash on the road. In March 2024, three people died<\/a> after a car plummeted from SH 130 onto Tesla Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Travis County deputies are at the scene of a fatal crash on SH 130 near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-339689","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\/339689","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=339689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}