{"id":367086,"date":"2026-07-09T17:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367086\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:52:16","slug":"passenger-said-he-lost-control-trying-to-avoid-animal-in-crash-that-killed-passenger-in-northwest-houston-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367086\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger said he lost control trying to avoid animal in crash that killed passenger in northwest Houston, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A driver said he was trying to avoid a possible animal when he lost control of the car and crashed into a tree, killing his passenger in northwest Houston, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened at about 1 a.m. on Thursday on Ella Boulevard, near Pinemont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the Houston Police Department, a Ford F-150 pickup truck was heading northbound on Ella Boulevard and approached Pinemont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said the driver was going at a high speed, lost control of the truck, and hit a tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">HPD said the driver, a man in his 30s, was critically injured and taken to the hospital. The passenger, an unidentified man, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Police said the truck driver showed no signs of intoxication at the time of the investigation, and that he told them he was trying to avoid a possible animal on the road when he lost control of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A driver said he was trying to avoid a possible animal when he lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[129967,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-367086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-129967","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367086","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=367086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}