{"id":417237,"date":"2026-08-26T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417237\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:18:08","slug":"austins-mopac-expressway-shut-down-after-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417237\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin\u2019s MoPac Expressway shut down after deadly crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part of a\u00a0key arterial roadway<\/a> for Central Texas commuters is closed on Wednesday morning, August 26, following a deadly crash involving a pedestrian.<\/p>\n

The Austin Police Department confirmed<\/a> just before 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, its officers were investigating a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian near the 4500 block of northbound North MoPac<\/a> Expressway at 45th Street. Officials stressed commuters needed to find alternative routes, with the entire northbound road closed near that intersection.<\/p>\n

In a follow-up social media post, APD officials said all northbound traffic is exiting at 45th Street, with MoPac closed between the 4500 and 4700 blocks.<\/p>\n

“[We] will update when the roadway is open,” the post noted.<\/p>\n

Austin-Travis EMS medics who responded to the scene confirmed the pedestrian killed had been riding on a scooter at the time of the crash. The emergency call came in around 5:10 a.m. Wednesday, with medics adding the person died at the crash site.<\/p>\n

The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, a government agency that oversees operations of the\u00a0MoPac Express Lane, also verified<\/a> the continuous closure online.<\/p>\n

Information provided by online traffic database SigAlert<\/a>\u00a0dded the closure boundary runs from West 45th Street up to RM 2222 and Northland Drive, with traffic backed up to Enfield Road as of roughly 7 a.m. Wednesday. Alternative route options include taking North Lamar Boulevard instead.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Please check back for more details as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of a\u00a0key arterial roadway for Central Texas commuters is closed on Wednesday morning, August 26, following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[820,59494,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-417237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysastaff","tag-mysatranspo","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417237","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=417237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}