{"id":383317,"date":"2026-07-23T02:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383317\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:52:11","slug":"houston-crash-vehicle-falls-from-hov-lane-onto-southwest-freeway-roadway-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383317\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston crash: Vehicle falls from HOV lane onto Southwest Freeway, roadway closed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; IH-69 Southwest Freeway northbound at Beltway 8 West will be closed for several hours after a vehicle crash on Wednesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Houston crash: Vehicle falls onto Southwest Freeway from Beltway 8 HOV lane <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to officials, the vehicle fell from the HOV lane onto Southwest Freeway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/vlcsnap-2026-07-22-20h43m53s755.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to Houston METRO, preliminary information indicated the driver lost control of the vehicle, which struck the HOV barrier, became airborne, and landed on the main lanes below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials said the vehicle is believed to have been traveling at a high rate of speed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Three people who were in the vehicle were taken to local hospitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials said the northbound main lanes of Southwest Freeway are closed between West Bellfort and Beltway 8 as first responders work the scene and conduct their investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Motorists are asked to find other routes as traffic is backed up in the area, officials said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston METRO officials did not provide the conditions of the people in the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Houston Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; IH-69 Southwest Freeway northbound at Beltway 8 West will be closed for several hours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[405,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-383317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383317","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=383317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}