HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Two Houston Fire Department vehicles crashed into the METRORail just this month, and after requesting state records, ABC13 learned who has been determined to be at fault.<\/p>\n
According to TxDOT reports, HFD vehicles were at fault in both crashes, and in both cases, people on board the train had to be taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
The first crash happened on July 3<\/a> on Hogan Street just north of Downtown. The second crash happened on July 17<\/a> on Fannin Street in the Museum District.<\/p>\n In the first of these two crashes, ABC13 got conflicting information: METRO reported the crash was HFD’s fault and HFD reported that it was METRO’s fault.<\/p>\n ABC13 requested crash reports from TxDOT on both crashes to get a better idea of who was at fault.<\/p>\n On July 3, TxDOT reported an HFD fire truck was driving westbound on Hogan with lights and sirens on when the driver “failed to exercise duty of care when entering the intersection.”<\/p>\n The report said two people were taken to the hospital after that crash: a passenger and the train operator.<\/p>\n The train operator’s attorney said, while government agencies are usually protected from liability in crashes, he is asking the city for money to cover her expenses related to the crash.<\/p>\n “What’s different about this case is that she’s driving a train,” Attorney Steve Shellist said. “First of all, it’s very difficult to stop a train, and secondly, you would expect that the fire truck would have seen the train. That’s not what they said – they said the driver said, ‘I didn’t see it.'”<\/p>\n On the Museum District crash on July 17, TxDOT reports the HFD vehicle allegedly disregarded a “stop and go signal light” and hit the train.<\/p>\n The report said three train passengers may have been injured.<\/p>\n ABC13 reached out to the Houston Fire Department about both crashes multiple times to find out what happened and whether any employees will be disciplined, but hasn’t received any responses.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Two Houston Fire Department vehicles crashed into the METRORail just this month, and after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[138795,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-394488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-138795","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394488","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=394488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}