{"id":417326,"date":"2026-08-26T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417326\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:12:09","slug":"one-dead-northbound-mopac-shut-down-after-crash-involving-scooter-rider-in-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417326\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, northbound Mopac shut down after crash involving scooter rider in central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 One person is dead following a crash on Mopac in central Austin early Wednesday morning. Police have shut down the northbound side of the freeway while they work the scene.<\/p>\n<p>APD says that officers responded to the scene just before 5 a.m. Wednesday morning near the 4500 block of North Mopac Expressway on the northbound side.<\/p>\n<p>Austin-Travis County EMS reported that the pedestrian involved had been riding on a scooter and was struck by a vehicle. That person, an adult, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/pflugerville-shuts-down-flock-system-after-finding-hundreds-of-unapproved-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Pflugerville shuts down Flock system after finding hundreds of unapproved users<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The driver remained on scene after the crash, according to APD.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that traffic on northbound Mopac is shut down up to the 4700 block of the freeway.<\/p>\n<p>APD says that the scene is fairly large, and that it will probably take three to four hours for the road to reopen.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are asked to avoid the area and seek alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>A CBS Austin crew is heading to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Six E-scooter riders were killed or seriously injured in Austin through August 10, 2026, according to the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/visionzero.austin.gov\/viewer\/?lv=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vision Zero dashboard<\/a>, compared with 11 during all of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 One person is dead following a crash on Mopac in central Austin early Wednesday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-417326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417326","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=417326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}