{"id":445172,"date":"2026-09-23T14:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445172\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:12:41","slug":"concrete-chunks-fall-into-traffic-on-dallas-central-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445172\/","title":{"rendered":"Concrete chunks fall into traffic on Dallas Central Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/aircheck_kdfw_4a_11a_2026_09_23-kdfweme001_03_58_5_00.18.55.06.jpg\" alt=\"Concrete chunks fall on Dallas Central Expressway\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/aircheck_kdfw_4a_11a_2026_09_23-kdfweme001_03_58_5_00.18.55.06.jpg\" alt=\"Concrete chunks fall on Dallas Central Expressway\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-a3924c54=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Part of northbound U.S. Highway 75 in Dallas is blocked off on Wednesday morning because of concrete chucks that have fallen from an overpass.<\/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 incident is affecting traffic on the Central Expressway near the Southern Methodist University campus.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to early reports, pieces of concrete from the Lovers Lane overpass have fallen into the far-right northbound lane.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">While it doesn\u2019t appear that any vehicles were hit, police have blocked off that lane because of the debris on the roadway and safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/concrete-chunks-fall-on-dallas-central-expressway.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/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=\"\">It\u2019s not yet clear how long the closure will last or what emergency repairs will be needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from traffic reporter Chip Waggoner and Texas Department of Transportation traffic cameras.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; Part of northbound U.S. Highway 75 in Dallas is blocked off on Wednesday morning because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,223,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-445172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445172","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=445172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}