{"id":404518,"date":"2026-08-12T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404518\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:06:09","slug":"houston-traffic-sh-288-southbound-lanes-closed-after-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404518\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston traffic: SH-288 southbound lanes closed after deadly crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/x7rrqw39wkbrvphj.jpg\" alt=\"Deadly crash causes major traffic backup SH-288\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/x7rrqw39wkbrvphj.jpg\" alt=\"Deadly crash causes major traffic backup SH-288\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-5a75adc3=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; There is complete closure on the southbound lanes of Highway 288 after a deadly crash early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>   SH-288 lanes closed <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Pearland Police Department reports a single car crashed on the highway just south of Beltway 8. The driver was reportedly ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">All southbound lanes of Highway 288 from north of the Beltway until Clear Creek are closed at this time. Police say the closures are expected to be in place for a prolonged time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Drivers should find alternate routes and expect delays.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">SH-288 northbound lanes are open and both directions of the SH 288 Toll Road are unaffected by this incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information provided by Houston Transtar and Pearland Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/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":"HOUSTON &#8211; There is complete closure on the southbound lanes of Highway 288 after a deadly crash early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,2053,272],"class_list":["post-404518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404518","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=404518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}