{"id":110066,"date":"2026-01-04T03:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110066\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:36:09","slug":"15-injured-after-metro-bus-overturns-off-houston-bridge-following-collision-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110066\/","title":{"rendered":"15 injured after METRO bus overturns off Houston bridge following collision, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen people were hurt Saturday when a METRO bus collided with a sedan and flipped off a Houston bridge, landing on a highway retaining wall, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened shortly after 2:30 p.m. near McGowen Street and State Highway 288, according to the Houston Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said 14 passengers on the bus and the sedan&#8217;s driver were injured. One woman suffered serious injuries and had to be extricated after being pinned inside the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>All but one of the victims were transported to local hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to severe.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"2.jpg \" height=\"520\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Houston Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This kind of response shows how quickly things can change and how important it is for our crews to remain flexible and prepared for the worst,&#8221; the fire department said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still working to determine what caused the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen people were hurt Saturday when a METRO bus collided with a sedan and flipped off a Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,430,27],"class_list":["post-110066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110066","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=110066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}