{"id":465798,"date":"2026-10-14T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465798\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:50:10","slug":"pedestrian-dead-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-on-sh-71-near-austin-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465798\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dead after being struck by vehicle on SH 71 near Austin airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A pedestrian is dead after being struck by a vehicle on State Highway 71 near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport early Wednesday morning, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported at about 5:54 a.m. in the westbound lanes of the 1600 block of East SH 71, near Brandt Drive, ATCEMS said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/apd-filed-11-animal-cruelty-warrants-how-austin-shelters-care-for-those-animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | APD filed 11 animal cruelty warrants, how Austin shelters care for those animals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Medics attempted to resuscitate the person, an adult, but they were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Department of Transportation, two westbound lanes are closed and one remains open.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers should expect delays in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A pedestrian is dead after being struck by a vehicle on State Highway 71 near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-465798","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\/465798","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=465798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}