{"id":261525,"date":"2026-04-22T18:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261525\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:39:11","slug":"woman-and-two-dogs-expected-to-be-ok-after-union-pacific-freight-train-clips-car-near-downtown-houston-on-sampson-street-hpd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261525\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman and two dogs expected to be OK after Union Pacific freight train clips car near downtown Houston on Sampson Street, HPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A woman is recovering after being hit by a train near downtown Houston overnight, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said the crash occurred east of downtown, near Sampson Street and McKinney, just before midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HPD told ABC13 that it is unclear why the woman, who is in her 40s, was parked on the railroad tracks with her two dogs inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/car-clipped-train-tracks-highway-90-dairy-ashford-road-sugar-land-delays-expected-police-say\/18613698\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic delays expected after train clips car, inspection underway, Sugar Land PD says<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The train that collided with her car was a Union Pacific freight train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The woman was taken to the hospital and is expected to be OK. Officials said the woman&#8217;s dogs were taken to a nearby shelter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HPD said no other injuries were reported, and the railroad has since been reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A woman is recovering after being hit by a train near downtown Houston overnight,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[97851,56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-261525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-97851","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261525","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=261525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}