{"id":439200,"date":"2026-09-17T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439200\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:00:12","slug":"texas-longhorns-coach-johnny-nansen-arrested-for-dwi-after-3-car-crash-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439200\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Longhorns coach Johnny Nansen arrested for DWI after 3-car crash in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/johnny-nansen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A Texas Longhorns football coach was arrested for DWI after a car crash in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>   Johnny Nansen DWI arrest <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox7austin.com\/news\/texas-longhorns-coach-johnny-nansen-dwi-arrest\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said on Sept. 16, around 8:55 p.m., officers responded to a three-car crash in the 700 block of S. Capitol of Texas Hwy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers contacted the driver of one of the cars, identified as 52-year-old Johnny Nansen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Nansen displayed signs consistent with possible impairment, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers conducted standard field sobriety tests and saw multiple clues of impairment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Nansen was then arrested for DWI.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox7austin.com\/news\/texas-longhorns-coach-johnny-nansen-dwi-arrest\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Nansen is currently the co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach for the Texas Longhorns football team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He has held the position since 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from an Austin Police Department press release on Sept. 17 and from the Texas Football website<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/travis-county\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A Texas Longhorns football coach was arrested for DWI after a car crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132,1046,223,27,29,28,394],"class_list":["post-439200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-austin","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-travis-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439200","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=439200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}