{"id":335962,"date":"2026-06-14T13:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335962\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T13:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:08:36","slug":"first-responders-vendors-stuck-in-traffic-near-houston-stadium-ahead-of-fifa-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335962\/","title":{"rendered":"First responders, vendors stuck in traffic near Houston Stadium ahead of FIFA game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First responders and vendors reported being stuck for more than an hour on the feeder road near the South Loop and Fanin exit<\/p>\n<p>First responders and vendors heading to Houston Stadium for the FIFA World Cup game between Germany and Cura\u00e7ao faced significant traffic delays due to congestion on the South Loop feeder road. (Houston TranStar)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 Houston-area first responders and event vendors reported major delays getting to Houston Stadium early Sunday morning as traffic backed up along the South Loop feeder road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Many of the first responders and vendors stuck in traffic are assigned to work at the stadium grounds for Sunday\u2019s FIFA World Cup game between Germany and Cura\u00e7ao at noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">A first responder working the event told KPRC 2 he had been stuck on the feeder for more than an hour at the Fanin exit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Houston police said a minor crash involving two vehicles at was reported by Gate 6 of the stadium grounds, causing significant delays. Police said the officer assigned to respond was delayed by a passing train and arrived at 6:51 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the Author<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/chudspeth\/\" title=\"View Christian Hudspeth&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Hudspeth<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Christian Hudspeth is a Houston native who joined KPRC 2 News in December 2025. Christian began his news career at KTRK in 2022 before moving to newsrooms in Waco, Texas (KXXV), Las Vegas, Nevada (KTNV), and now back to H-Town. He earned his BA at the University of Houston Jack J. Valenti School of Communication in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First responders and vendors reported being stuck for more than an hour on the feeder road near the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[37274,6915,118892,56,58,57,107851,272,3692],"class_list":["post-335962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-fifa","tag-first-responders","tag-fwc26","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-stadium","tag-traffic","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335962","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=335962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}