AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A crash on Tuesday morning shut down all the southbound lanes of MoPac Expressway near U.S. 183 in Austin. Police later confirmed that one person had died in the crash.<\/p>\n
The Austin Police Department (APD) closed all southbound lanes of MoPac in the area, including the toll roads, while officials investigated the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to a preliminary report from APD, officers responded to the crash a little after 9 a.m. after a car rear-ended another vehicle on MoPac.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One driver remained in the area and cooperated with officers. The other driver, who was later identified as Jonhatan Rodriguez, was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police say this was the 88th fatal crash of 2025, with 92 fatalities for the entire year so far.\u00a0That\u2019s up a little from this time last year, when there were 87 fatal crashes that resulted in 90 deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A crash on Tuesday morning shut down all the southbound lanes of MoPac Expressway near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30627,132,134,133,5604,1974,223,27,42533,272,29499],"class_list":["post-92435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-traffic-and-transit","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-katharine-finnerty","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-topic-latest-traffic-transit-news","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-and-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92435","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=92435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}