{"id":393200,"date":"2026-07-31T07:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393200\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:57:14","slug":"industrial-oven-caused-massive-delays-along-southbound-lanes-of-dallas-north-tollway-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393200\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial oven caused massive delays along southbound lanes of Dallas North Tollway, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An industrial oven halted southbound traffic during rush hour Thursday on the Dallas North Tollway after hitting a bridge.<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS \u2014 Drivers headed southbound on the Dallas North Tollway had to find an alternative route after a massive mystery object <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">stopped traffic<\/a> just before the 635 bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, troopers had to shut down all southbound DNT lanes after a truck-tractor semi-trailer lost its load while trying to go under the bridge. The object on the back of the trailer hit the bridge and scattered across all southbound lanes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WFAA staff have unofficially thrown out several ideas, including a cooling system, a massive A\/C unit, a refining machine, a time machine, and possibly a sculpture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d8093016-1565-4608-ba3f-821cf2c84668_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>DPS answered our question, confirming the object as a 34,000-pound industrial object. Officials initially didn&#8217;t have a reopening time, but as of 9 p.m., traffic is moving along the tollway and has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Photos shared with WFAA show that crews are actively working to get the oven off the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b70f7fa6-56e1-402d-abf8-a8617d760435_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An industrial oven halted southbound traffic during rush hour Thursday on the Dallas North Tollway after hitting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-393200","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\/393200","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=393200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}