{"id":20690,"date":"2025-10-25T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/20690\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:47:12","slug":"houston-police-officer-injured-in-crash-on-i-45-at-west-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/20690\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston police officer injured in crash on I-45 at West Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston police officer was taken to the hospital after a driver plowed into his patrol vehicle along the I-45 North Freeway on Saturday morning, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>   Officer injured in crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The crash occurred around 1:30 a.m. at the entrance ramp to the North Freeway just before West Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to police, the officer was at the scene of a previous crash on the freeway and was using his patrol vehicle to block drivers from entering the entrance ramp.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vlcsnap-2025-10-25-05h26m19s119.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">A Houston police officer was injured in a crash on the I-45 North Freeway at West Road. <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">As he was blocking traffic, a pickup truck crashed into the officer\u2019s vehicle, injuring the officer, HPD says.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The officer was taken to the hospital and was last reported to be in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police say the driver was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The officer and the driver of the pickup truck have not been identified. Police are investigating if alcohol was a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston police officer was taken to the hospital after a driver plowed into his patrol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[405,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-20690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-harris-county","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690","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=20690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}