{"id":427339,"date":"2026-09-05T18:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427339\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:02:24","slug":"polk-county-crash-involving-tdcj-van-suv-8-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427339\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County crash involving TDCJ van, SUV; 8 taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788631344_336_default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-b05d485a=\"\"\/>       <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Eight people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a crash involving an SUV and a van transporting inmates in Polk County, officials say.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The crash occurred shortly after 1 p.m. Friday on Business U.S. 59 at FM 1988, south of Livingston.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to Texas DPS, a Ford Escape was traveling south on Business U.S. 59, while a Texas Department of Criminal Justice van was traveling east on FM 1988 and stopped at the stop sign.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities say the driver of the TDCJ van pulled away from the stop sign into the path of the SUV, and the van was struck.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The 84-year-old driver of the SUV and a 75-year-old passenger were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">All six inmates who were in the van were also taken to the hospital. All of their injuries are said to not be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The driver of the TDCJ van and two other guards on the bus were not injured.<\/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=\"\">Authorities did not indicate who was at fault in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Texas Department of Public Safety in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/polk-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polk County<\/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; Eight people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a crash involving an SUV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,6215,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-427339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-polk-county","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427339","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=427339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}