{"id":417248,"date":"2026-08-26T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417248\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:36:10","slug":"deadly-crash-involving-e-scooter-on-mopac-all-nb-lanes-shut-down-at-45th-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417248\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly crash involving e-scooter on MoPac: All NB lanes shut down at 45th St."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786636813_567_default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-b993be58=\"\"\/>       <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; All northbound lanes of MoPac are shut down at 45th Street after a fatal crash involving a pedestrian on an e-scooter.<\/p>\n<p>   Why is MoPac shut down? <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Why you should care:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Traffic is being forced off the highway at 45th Street with MoPac closed northbound through the 4700 block.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Drivers are urged to find alternate routes as all lanes are expected to be shut down for several more hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from Austin Police Department and Austin-Travis County EMS X posts.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; All northbound lanes of MoPac are shut down at 45th Street after a fatal crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,223,272,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-417248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-news","tag-traffic","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417248","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=417248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}