{"id":477100,"date":"2026-10-26T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477100\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:30:09","slug":"serious-crash-shuts-down-eastbound-highway-71-del-valle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477100\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious crash shuts down eastbound Highway 71 Del Valle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Two people were taken to the hospital after a car caught fire in a two-vehicle crash in Del Valle, according to Austin-Travis County EMS. <\/p>\n<p>The Travis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office first reported the crash at 5:23 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of SH 71 at Caldwell Lane. ATCEMS responded to the scene and transported two adults to the hospital. One suffered life-threatening injuries, while the other sustained serious injuries, according to ATCEMS. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/fm-812-near-cota-reopens-after-water-leak-austin-water-to-start-permanent-repairs-monday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | FM 812 near COTA reopens after water leak; Austin Water to start permanent repairs Monday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the Travis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, the incident will take hours to clear. <\/p>\n<p>Delays are expected in the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Two people were taken to the hospital after a car caught fire in a two-vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-477100","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\/477100","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=477100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}