{"id":389061,"date":"2026-07-28T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389061\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:44:10","slug":"west-beltway-crash-1-killed-in-18-wheeler-wreck-on-w-sam-houston-tollway-southbound-near-westheimer-pct-5-says-lanes-reopened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389061\/","title":{"rendered":"West Beltway crash: 1 killed in 18-wheeler wreck on W. Sam Houston Tollway southbound near Westheimer, Pct 5 says; lanes reopened"},"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>Tuesday, July 28, 2026 12:27PM<\/p>\n<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A fiery and deadly crash has cleared after shutting down a portion of the West Beltway on Tuesday morning, according to Harris County Constable Precinct 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Houston <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/traffic.houstontranstar.org\/layers\/layers_ve.aspx?x=29.718244&amp;y=-95.557374&amp;z=15&amp;inc=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TranStar<\/a> showed the wreck temporarily closed the West Sam Houston Tollway southbound lanes at Westpark Tollway near Westheimer at around 3:30 a.m. before all lanes reopened at about 7:17 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pct. 5 confirmed to ABC13 that someone died in the crash, adding that it involved a Corvette that was going at a high speed down the Beltway before it lost control and hit the barrier wall. The Corvette was then reportedly hit by an 18-wheeler and caught fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">TranStar cameras captured the fire just after 3 a.m., when flames and smoke could be seen coming from the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No other information about the wreck was made available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/traffic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live traffic map<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, July 28, 2026 12:27PM Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[137077,56,58,57,5206],"class_list":["post-389061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-137077","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389061","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=389061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}