{"id":425083,"date":"2026-09-03T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425083\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:00:12","slug":"katy-freeway-crash-woman-dies-after-being-thrown-off-motorcycle-during-crash-hcso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425083\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Freeway crash: Woman dies after being thrown off motorcycle during crash, HCSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/1788447612_323_origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, September 3, 2026 1:47PM<\/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; A woman was killed overnight when authorities said she was thrown off her motorcycle during a crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened just after midnight on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the woman was driving a motorcycle at a high rate of speed on the westbound lanes of the Katy Freeway when she was nearing the Grand Parkway and hit the back of an 18-wheeler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Deputies said the woman was thrown off her motorcycle during the crash, and while she was wearing protective gear, it &#8220;didn&#8217;t help.&#8221; Authorities said the woman did not show signs of intoxication, and the driver of the 18-wheeler was OK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The crash closed the highway for a couple of hours, but crews cleared it by the morning rush.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, September 3, 2026 1:47PM Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[147799,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-425083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-147799","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425083","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=425083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}