{"id":344867,"date":"2026-06-21T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344867\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:41:13","slug":"east-freeway-vehicle-hit-by-airborne-driver-3-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344867\/","title":{"rendered":"East Freeway vehicle hit by airborne driver, 3 hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Three people were hospitalized early Sunday after a vehicle reportedly went airborne and struck another vehicle on the East Freeway.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston East Freeway: Crash involving airborne driver <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash was reported at about 2 a.m. Sunday in the eastbound lanes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Waco+St+%26+East+Fwy,+Houston,+TX+77020\/@29.7718196,-95.3319845,15.75z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640beb48525e0bb:0x176fe290b3e21eda!8m2!3d29.7722802!4d-95.326535!16s%2Fg%2F11hb5mr_04?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I-10 near the Waco Street exit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to police, witnesses said a Ford Explorer was speeding on the feeder road and lost control. The vehicle went airborne over an embankment, landed on the freeway, and struck a vehicle on that freeway.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/east-freeway.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">(Footage courtesy of OnScene) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The vehicle that was hit reportedly had four people inside. Two of those people were sent to a hospital. Officials say they are expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The driver of the Explorer was also taken to a hospital and was last said to be in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No one involved has been identified.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Other details on what led up to the crash are not available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: OnScene and Houston Police<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Three people were hospitalized early Sunday after a vehicle reportedly went airborne and struck another vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,2053,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-344867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344867","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=344867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}