{"id":182178,"date":"2026-02-27T01:19:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/182178\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:19:43","slug":"2-killed-in-fifth-ward-after-vehicle-hits-tree-lockwood-closed-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/182178\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed in Fifth Ward after vehicle hits tree; Lockwood closed off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Two people have died after their vehicle crashed into a tree in Houston&#8217;s Fifth Ward, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/houstonpolice\/status\/2027175132733612371?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to first responders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>   Deadly Fifth Ward crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">The crash was reported shortly about 4 p.m. Thursday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/935+Lockwood+Dr,+Houston,+TX+77020\/@29.7631324,-95.3209143,16z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640bea5c1b1050b:0xfdcb0a586c868ad7!8m2!3d29.7621359!4d-95.316773?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lockwood Drive near Clinton Drive<\/a>. Lockwood is closed off in both directions.<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Houston Fire officials confirm with FOX 26 that a vehicle crashed into a tree at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">Police say a man and a woman have been pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">No one involved has been identified at this time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-1b07e41a=\"\">This is a breaking news report. We will update when more information is available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Police and Fire Departments<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\/fifth-ward\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fifth Ward<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-1b07e41a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Two people have died after their vehicle crashed into a tree in Houston&#8217;s Fifth Ward, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[62986,56,58,57,223,2053,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-182178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-fifth-ward","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182178","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=182178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}