{"id":364164,"date":"2026-07-07T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364164\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:00:10","slug":"man-killed-in-north-harris-county-crash-was-headed-to-work-hcso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364164\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in north Harris County crash was headed to work, HCSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A man was killed in a crash Tuesday morning as he was leaving to go to work in northwest Harris County, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened at about 4 a.m. at Sablechase and TC Jester. According to the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, a red Toyota was headed northbound on TC Jester when the driver allegedly ran a red light and hit a white RAV4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HCSO said the driver of the RAV4 was pronounced dead at the scene. Meanwhile, the driver of the red vehicle was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities added that they found open containers inside the red vehicle but say it&#8217;s too early to conclude if the driver was intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">While the identity of the victim killed is unknown, authorities said he was a Hispanic man in his 50s, lived in the neighborhood, and was leaving for work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">An investigation is continuing into the case.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A man was killed in a crash Tuesday morning as he was leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[129073,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-364164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-129073","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364164","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=364164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}