{"id":480340,"date":"2026-10-29T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480340\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:52:07","slug":"crash-closes-westbound-sh-71-near-travis-bastrop-county-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480340\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash closes westbound SH 71 near Travis-Bastrop county line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BASTROP COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A crash closed all westbound lanes of State Highway 71 early Thursday near the Travis County-Bastrop County line, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at Tucker Hill Lane, TxDOT said. A CBS Austin crew is at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The lanes were closed for roughly two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not said how many vehicles were involved or whether anyone was hurt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/man-dies-after-hit-and-run-in-n-austin-burger-king-drive-thru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Man dies after hit-and-run in N Austin Burger King drive-thru<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CBS Austin has reached out to authorities for additional information.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers should avoid the area and find another route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BASTROP COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A crash closed all westbound lanes of State Highway 71 early Thursday near the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-480340","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\/480340","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=480340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}