{"id":352717,"date":"2026-06-27T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352717\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:25:10","slug":"woman-killed-after-car-slams-into-stalled-18-wheeler-on-houston-south-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352717\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed after car slams into stalled 18-wheeler on Houston South Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/screenshot-2026-06-27-093031.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A woman died late Friday night after her vehicle crashed into the back of a stalled 18-wheeler on the South Loop, according to Houston police.<\/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 happened just before midnight in the westbound lanes of the South Loop West near Kirby Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston Police Department officers arrived at the scene and found a passenger vehicle had crashed into the rear of the stalled tractor-trailer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The female driver, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. Her identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The driver of the 18-wheeler was not injured in the collision.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation into the cause of the crash remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Houston Police Department via Onscene.<\/p>\n<p>    <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\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HOUSTON &#8211; A woman died late Friday night after her vehicle crashed into the back of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,272,216,393],"class_list":["post-352717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352717","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=352717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}