{"id":405481,"date":"2026-08-13T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405481\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:14:09","slug":"northwest-freeway-crash-driver-dead-after-vehicle-hits-guardrail-overturns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405481\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Freeway crash: Driver dead after vehicle hits guardrail, overturns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-e2115db2=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police are investigating a crash in the northwest Houston area along U.S. 290 after a driver was found dead by officers Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p> Deadly crash along US 290 feeder road   <\/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 Sergeant Mike Barrow, police responded to a crash on the Northwest Freeway near the Fairbanks exit on the feeder road going inbound.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police say a black SUV was traveling at a high rate of speed on the feeder road and made minor contact with a second vehicle. It&#8217;s believed the SUV&#8217;s driver lost control and hit a guardrail which caused him to flip his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The occupants in the second vehicle suffered minor injuries.<\/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=\"\">At this time, the identity of the driver is unknown.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police have not determined if the driver was impaired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information provided by HPD Vehicular Crimes Division Sergeant Mike Barrow<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/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; Houston police are investigating a crash in the northwest Houston area along U.S. 290 after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053],"class_list":["post-405481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405481","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=405481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}