{"id":392718,"date":"2026-07-30T23:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392718\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:32:09","slug":"dallas-north-tollway-closed-near-i-635-after-large-object-blocks-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392718\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas North Tollway closed near I-635 after large object blocks lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All southbound lanes of the Dallas North Tollway were closed near Interstate 635 Thursday afternoon after a large object blocked several lanes, bringing rush-hour traffic to a standstill during the evening rush hour, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The North Texas Tollway Authority warned drivers to expect heavy traffic and major delays through the evening commute and urged motorists to avoid the area near the Galleria.<\/p>\n<p>An employee for The Dallas Morning News said the object appeared to have fallen from a large truck just north of the interchange. Traffic stretched for what appeared to be miles in the southbound lanes behind the item, the employee said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not immediately identify the object, say whether anyone was injured or estimate when the tollway would reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All southbound lanes of the Dallas North Tollway were closed near Interstate 635 Thursday afternoon after a large&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-392718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392718","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=392718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}