{"id":353809,"date":"2026-06-28T21:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353809\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T21:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:37:11","slug":"police-deputy-killed-in-multi-vehicle-crash-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353809\/","title":{"rendered":"Police deputy killed in multi-vehicle crash in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of incidents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/gulf-coast\/article\/galveston-causeway-construction-texas-22194348.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">on I-45<\/a> starting early Sunday morning included a multiple crashes and the death of a Montgomery County sheriff&#8217;s deputy, and was causing significant traffic delays along a portion of the northbound highway for hours.<\/p>\n<p>While deputies were working the scene, a commercial truck pulling a trailer struck Deputy Erika Serrato, who was directing traffic, as well as two marked patrol vehicles with emergency lights activated. The 24-year-old deputy was transported to a local hospital where she later died from her injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another deputy was also injured after being struck by debris. That deputy sustained minor injuries, was treated at a local hospital and has since been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the drivers involved in the initial crash, identified as 34-year-old Ashton Jammer, was arrested and charged with Driving While Intoxicated and is being held in the Montgomery County Jail. The driver of the commercial vehicle was taken to a local hospital and that crash remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Around 11:15 a.m. Sunday, Houston TranStar showed northbound I-45 near the Woodlands Parkway exit was moving more than five times slower than normal speed. TranStar described the incident as a hazmat spill resulting from a two-vehicle crash, affecting all main lanes as well as both the left and right shoulders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson with the\u00a0MCSO\u00a0told Chron they were unaware of any hazmat spill associated with the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A series of incidents on I-45 starting early Sunday morning included a multiple crashes and the death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1836,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-353809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353809","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=353809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}