{"id":401177,"date":"2026-08-08T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401177\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:04:21","slug":"sh-225-at-richey-street-reopens-after-being-closed-for-hours-due-to-hazmat-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401177\/","title":{"rendered":"SH-225 at Richey Street reopens after being closed for hours due to hazmat spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident was verified at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">A hazmat spill involving a heavy truck has shut down most westbound lanes of State Highway 225 near Richey Street Friday morning, according to Houston TranStar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The incident was verified at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Authorities say the crash involves a heavy truck and a hazardous materials spill, blocking the:<\/p>\n<p>Left shoulder <\/p>\n<p>Right shoulder <\/p>\n<p>Left lane <\/p>\n<p>Center lane <\/p>\n<p>Right lane <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Only one westbound lane remained open Friday morning as crews work to respond to the incident and clean up the spill. As of 10:50 a.m., all lanes have been reopened. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/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":"The incident was verified at 11:59 p.m. Thursday. A hazmat spill involving a heavy truck has shut down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[124756,56,58,57,272],"class_list":["post-401177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-hazmat-spill","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401177","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=401177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}