{"id":424133,"date":"2026-09-02T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424133\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:02:10","slug":"drivers-killed-in-wrong-way-crash-on-sam-houston-tollway-westbound-at-telephone-road-pct-2-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424133\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers killed in wrong-way crash on Sam Houston Tollway westbound at Telephone Road, Pct. 2 says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Deputies said one of the two drivers killed became trapped in their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788368530_548_origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, September 2, 2026 4:06PM<\/p>\n<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Deputies are investigating after they say two drivers were killed in a wrong-way crash on the Beltway overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to Harris County Constable Precinct 7, the fatal crash happened on the Beltway 8 Toll Road westbound at Telephone Road, which shut down all lanes for a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Deputy Marcus Anderson with Harris County Constable Precinct 2 told ABC13 this was a wrong-way crash involving two vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pct. 2 said both drivers, a man and a woman, died. It&#8217;s unclear who was driving the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The male driver reportedly became trapped in the vehicle, which caught on fire. Anderson said it&#8217;s unclear if that&#8217;s how he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The drivers killed were the only occupants in both vehicles and have not been identified, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">An investigation into the crash is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies said one of the two drivers killed became trapped in their vehicle. Wednesday, September 2, 2026 4:06PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[147511,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-424133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-147511","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424133","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=424133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}