{"id":408880,"date":"2026-08-17T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408880\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:14:12","slug":"highway-6-north-crash-woman-dead-2-juveniles-injured-after-vehicle-hits-concrete-pillar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408880\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 6 North crash: Woman dead, 2 juveniles injured after vehicle hits concrete pillar"},"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; \u00a0A deadly crash is under investigation in northwest Harris County after officials say a woman was found dead and two juveniles severely injured in a crash on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>   Crash kills woman, injures two juveniles <\/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 the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, deputies were called around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday to a parking lot along Highway 6 North just north of Clay Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Deputies say Jessica Esparza was driving a gold 2008 Kia Rio northbound with a 13-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl as passengers. Esparza failed to stay in a single lane and veered northeast off the roadway into a private parking lot, where the vehicle crashed into a concrete pillar.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot-2026-08-17-070854.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy of OnScene TV Houston <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Esparza was found dead at the scone when officials arrived, the sheriff&#8217;s office reported. Both young passengers had life-threatening injuries and were taken to Memorial Hermann Medical Center on Life Flight.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A witness at the scene told investigators he saw the Kia driving northbound at a high rate of speed just before the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash remains under active investigation by the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Vehicular Crimes Division.<\/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=\"\">The relationship between the woman and two juveniles is unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Traffic Release Record<\/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; \u00a0A deadly crash is under investigation in northwest Harris County after officials say a woman was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053],"class_list":["post-408880","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\/408880","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=408880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}