{"id":378702,"date":"2026-07-19T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378702\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:49:09","slug":"20-year-old-driver-showed-signs-of-intoxication-after-deadly-crash-on-southwest-freeway-hpd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378702\/","title":{"rendered":"20-year-old driver showed signs of intoxication after deadly crash on Southwest Freeway, HPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, July 19, 2026 1:18PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC13 Houston 24\/7 Live Stream\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; One person is dead, and another is injured after a fatal crash on the Southwest Freeway on Sunday morning, the Houston Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said the crash happened around 1:45 a.m. in the northbound lanes at Westpark. It was cleared just before 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to HPD, the driver of an Acura lost their bumper on the freeway and pulled over onto the shoulder to grab it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">That&#8217;s when a Ford Mustang crashed into the Acura, killing the Acura&#8217;s passenger and sending the driver to the hospital, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police told ABC13 the Mustang&#8217;s driver is a 20-year-old woman who showed signs of intoxication. She is currently in custody, but no formal charges have been filed, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Officers said HPD is getting a warrant to draw her blood to obtain her level of intoxication.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, July 19, 2026 1:18PM HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; One person is dead, and another is injured after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[133867,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-378702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-133867","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378702","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=378702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}