{"id":358514,"date":"2026-07-02T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358514\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:15:44","slug":"houston-police-officer-injured-in-crash-at-clay-and-gessner-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358514\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston police officer injured in crash at Clay and Gessner overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Houston police officer was injured in a crash with another vehicle in northwest Houston overnight, and he&#8217;s expected to recover, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/crime\/article\/felipe-gallegos-fifth-circuit-harding-street-22326548.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was driving westbound on Clay\u00a0Road, and a civilian was vehicle heading north\u00a0on Gessner Road when the two collided in the intersection,\u00a0Sgt. Barrow told OnScene TV. Police were investigating which driver had a green light and which had a red light, but early reporting indicated the civilian blew through a red light at a high rate of speed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The officer appears to have had the green light, Barrow added. He did not say when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p>He said police detained and were evaluating the civilian for a possible DWI. Police have neither identified the driver nor announced any charges in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Barrow said the officer, who was on a normal patrol at the time of the crash, was recovering.<\/p>\n<p>This story may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Houston police officer was injured in a crash with another vehicle in northwest Houston overnight, and he&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-358514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358514","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=358514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}