Two people were injured, one critically, in a crash that sparked a vehicle fire on Texas 71 in eastern Travis County early Monday morning, prompting a road closure lasting several hours.<\/p>\n
Austin-Travis County EMS responded to the two-vehicle collision in the 5100 block of eastbound Texas 71 in Del Valle around 4:54 a.m. One of the vehicles caught fire, according to medics. In a traffic alert issued at 5:23 a.m., the sheriff’s office warned that clearing the crash would take hours and urged drivers to find alternate routes.<\/p>\n
Crews cleared the wreck and reopened the road by 8:35 a.m. according to the sheriff’s office,\u00a0after an earlier closure of all eastbound lanes past\u00a0Kellam Road.<\/p>\n
Emergency crews transported one adult to Dell Seton Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. Another adult was taken to St. David’s South Austin Medical Center with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
Authorities had not released information about what caused the collision or the identities of those injured as of Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were injured, one critically, in a crash that sparked a vehicle fire on Texas 71 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-477226","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\/477226","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=477226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}