{"id":10391,"date":"2025-10-19T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10391\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:04:13","slug":"postal-worker-dies-after-crash-in-northwest-harris-county-driver-charged-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10391\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal worker dies after crash in northwest Harris County; driver charged, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Postal <\/p>\n

HOUSTON – A postal worker is dead, and a driver is in custody following a crash on Antoine Drive in northwest Harris County, according to the sheriff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Harris County: Fatal crash on Antoine Drive \"Harris <\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

The crash was reported Saturday morning in the 11700 block of Antoine<\/a>, near West Greens Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Authorities say the crash involved a postal vehicle and a pickup truck. The driver of the postal vehicle was taken to a hospital and later pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/p>\n

Crash scene on Antoine Drive (Photo credit: Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez) <\/p>\n

According to a sergeant at the scene, the pickup driver fled a minor crash on Antoine and Veterans Memorial Drive<\/a>. The driver was allegedly speeding and lost control when he rear-ended the postal truck.<\/p>\n

The sergeant said the pickup driver, later identified as 48-year-old Jose Romero, took a sobriety test and showed signs of intoxication.<\/p>\n

The Harris County District Attorney’s Office has reportedly been contacted, and they accepted a charge of intoxication manslaughter.<\/p>\n

What we don’t know:<\/p>\n

The postal worker has not been identified at this time. Authorities say he was 58 years old.<\/p>\n

The Source: Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, and Sgt. P. Villacorta.<\/p>\n

Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Houston<\/a>Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – A postal worker is dead, and a driver is in custody following a crash on Antoine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,405,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-10391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-harris-county","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","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=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}