{"id":370738,"date":"2026-07-13T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370738\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:52:09","slug":"2-people-dead-after-crash-on-the-eastex-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370738\/","title":{"rendered":"2 people dead after crash on the Eastex Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fatal crash on Eastex Freeway (KPRC2\/Click2Houston.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 Two people died in a fiery 2-vehicle crash on I-69 this afternoon in northeast Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">HPD tells us that it happened around 4:45 p.m. near Beltway 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The crash involved a heavy truck and a passenger vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The southbound lanes of the Eastex Freeway could be closed for several more hours while HPD investigates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fatal crash on Eastex Freeway (KPRC2\/Click2Houston.com) HOUSTON \u2013 Two people died in a fiery 2-vehicle crash on I-69&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[268,131335,11861,56,58,57,39949],"class_list":["post-370738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crash","tag-eastex","tag-fatal","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-i-69"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370738","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=370738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}