AUSTIN, Texas — One person is dead following a crash on Mopac in central Austin early Wednesday morning. Police shut down the northbound side of the freeway while they worked the scene; the road has reopened as of 10:15 a.m.
APD says that officers responded to the scene just before 5 a.m. Wednesday morning near the 4500 block of North Mopac Expressway on the northbound side.
Austin-Travis County EMS reported that the pedestrian involved had been riding on a scooter and was struck by a vehicle. That person, an adult, was pronounced dead at the scene…