{"id":395860,"date":"2026-08-02T21:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395860\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T21:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:31:45","slug":"i-635-bridge-under-repair-after-semi-loses-34000-pound-load-in-dallas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395860\/","title":{"rendered":"I-635 bridge under repair after semi loses 34,000 pound load in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large object fell onto the Dallas North Tollway Thursday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/article\/dallas-north-tollway-closed-near-i-635-large-22368067.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blocking<\/a> all southbound lanes during the post-work rush hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety responded to a single-vehicle incident around 5 p.m. involving a truck-tractor semi-trailer near the Galleria Dallas mall. The vehicle struck the Interstate 635 bridge, causing it to lose its load and shut down the tollway for hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were sustained as a result of the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Texas DPS documents state the object blocking the road was an industrial-sized oven, weighing about 34,000 pounds. Emergency crews were able to clear the scene, and the lanes reopened late Thursday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the bridge beam was damaged, said Michael Rey, media relations manager for the North Texas Toll Authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bridge remains structurally sound. However, as a precaution, we will keep the westbound lane of the bridge over Dallas North Tollway closed to traffic until repairs are completed,\u201d Rey said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The toll authority is developing repair plans but a timeline was disclosed. Continuous closures of the westbound I-635 service road between northbound Dallas Parkway and southbound\u00a0Inwood Road are underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These closures are to assess and complete necessary repairs caused by the accident. Message boards will be placed nearby to alert motorists driving in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large object fell onto the Dallas North Tollway Thursday evening, blocking all southbound lanes during the post-work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,100447,17921,88572,91360,840],"class_list":["post-395860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news-transportation","tag-service","tag-tp-transportation","tag-tp-ntta","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395860","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=395860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}