{"id":309609,"date":"2026-05-26T19:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309609\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:51:17","slug":"houston-traffic-northwest-freeway-shut-down-at-eldridge-due-to-overturned-18-wheeler-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309609\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston traffic: Northwest Freeway shut down at Eldridge due to overturned 18-wheeler, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; The westbound lanes of US-290 will be shut down for hours on Tuesday after an 18-wheeler overturned at Eldridge, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Cy-Fair Fire Department shared that emergency units are working to clear the scene, but the westbound lanes will be completely shut down in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Cy-Fair FD added that HAZMAT is on scene to help with a fuel spill and that five people were taken to the hospital but are OK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Images shared by authorities showed the overturned 18-wheeler, pallets scattered across the lanes, and tire parts over the barricade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Details on what led to the crash or if anyone was injured were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ABC13 has real-time traffic data to help you navigate Houston&#8217;s roads and avoid traffic delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sign up for traffic alerts sent straight to your phone through our ABC13 app. Manage your notifications from the settings tab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On mobile, use two fingers to zoom in to specific roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/traffic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live traffic map<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; The westbound lanes of US-290 will be shut down for hours on Tuesday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[111811,56,58,57,1925,5206],"class_list":["post-309609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-111811","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-no-ta","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309609","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=309609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}