{"id":438065,"date":"2026-09-16T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438065\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:50:21","slug":"fatal-crash-and-vehicle-fire-shut-down-southbound-i-35w-near-hill-johnson-county-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438065\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash and vehicle fire shut down southbound I-35W near Hill-Johnson county line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/48414239805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">JOHNSON COUNTY, Texas &#8211; Southbound Interstate 35W was shut down early Wednesday morning following a fatal vehicle fire and crash near the Hill-Johnson county line, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>   I-35W shut down <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Johnson County Sheriff\u2019s Office issued a traffic advisory reporting that the closure is located at approximately the 14-mile marker in Hill County. The incident has triggered significant traffic backups extending northward into Johnson County.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Texas Department of Transportation deployed crews to the scene to assist with traffic control. Motorists were urged to seek alternative routes and avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The roadway appears to be open again after being shut down for hours.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation into the fatal crash and vehicle fire remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Johnson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and TxDOT traffic cameras.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/johnson-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Johnson County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article JOHNSON COUNTY, Texas &#8211; Southbound Interstate 35W was shut down early Wednesday morning following a fatal vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,438,223,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-438065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-johnson-county","tag-news","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438065","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=438065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}