Officials shut down all southbound lanes of a section of Texas 288 in\u00a0Pearland Thursday morning after a rollover crash that killed at least one person.<\/p>\n
The Hughes Ranch and Discovery Bay entrance ramps were inaccessible as of 9:30 a.m. as authorities diverted traffic around the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pearland Police officers responded around 1 a.m. to a single-vehicle rollover crash in the 15500 block of the Texas 288 South, according to a release by the agency. Four people were found inside of a vehicle while it was on fire and three of the passengers appeared to be unresponsive, the release states.<\/p>\n
Officers attempted to extinguish the fire and pulled three of the passengers from the vehicle. One of the passengers was pronounced dead on scene. The other three were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
The Texas 288 southbound lanes were diverted due to the severity of the crash and damage to the guardrail. The toll road was temporarily inaccessible from Hughes Ranch and Discovery Bay.<\/p>\n
The Texas Department of Transportation was working alongside the\u00a0Pearland Police Department to reopen to toll road.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials shut down all southbound lanes of a section of Texas 288 in\u00a0Pearland Thursday morning after a rollover…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-303066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303066","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=303066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}