AUSTIN, Texas — A two-vehicle wreck on MoPac Expressway in North Austin left one person dead and two others hurt, and it shut down every northbound lane near Steck Avenue for part of the day.
Austin-Travis County EMS said the call came in at about 11:47 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11, from the 8000 block of North MoPac. Medics took three adults to hospitals. One went to Dell Seton Medical Center in critical, life-threatening condition, while the other two, whose injuries were not considered life-threatening, were driven to a hospital in Round Rock run by St. David’s.
The Austin Police Department later said the critically hurt patient died at the hospital.
Police posted a traffic alert at 12:46 p.m. saying officers were working a fatality near the 8100 block of the northbound highway and that the road was closed. State highway officials confirmed the closure covered every northbound lane of Loop 1 where it meets Steck, and the Mobility Authority reported that both the regular lanes and the express lane were shut.
Police and Austin’s transportation department warned of long delays and told drivers to use other routes while crews cleared the scene.
As of the latest update, officials had not identified the person who died and had not said what led to the collision. The crash remains under investigation by Austin police.
MoPac, which the state designates as Loop 1, is a major north-south route through Austin, so a midday shutdown of all northbound travel at Steck sent drivers searching for detours during the lunch hour. The closure took in the toll express lane as well as the free lanes, leaving no way through on that side of the highway until the scene was cleared.
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