{"id":434151,"date":"2026-09-12T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434151\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:56:08","slug":"deadly-crash-shuts-down-beltway-8-south-headed-west-near-bellfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434151\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly crash shuts down Beltway 8 South headed west near Bellfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crash happened around 8 a.m. in the main lanes of the tollway.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2014 A deadly crash has the westbound lanes of Beltway 8 South shut down after Bellfort, according to the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 8 a.m. in the main lanes of the tollway. Houston TranStar reported that four vehicles, including a heavy vehicle, were involved in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Details surrounding the incident are limited at this time. At least one person died in the crash. We don&#8217;t know how many others were hurt.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how long the tollway will be closed.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story that will be updated as we learn more.<\/p>\n<p>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/traffic\/beltway-8-crash-sam-houston-tollway-bellfort-traffic\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crash happened around 8 a.m. in the main lanes of the tollway. HOUSTON \u2014 A deadly crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-434151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434151","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=434151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}