{"id":452303,"date":"2026-09-30T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452303\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:38:15","slug":"houston-traffic-north-freeway-southbound-blocked-at-woodlands-pkwy-due-to-hazmat-scene-txdot-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452303\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston traffic: North Freeway southbound blocked at Woodlands Pkwy due to hazmat scene, TxDOT says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Multiple southbound lanes of the North Freeway at Woodlands Parkway are expected to be blocked for hours while crews work to clear the aftermath of a heavy truck incident, according to TxDOT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Wednesday, the Texas Department of Transportation shared on social media that multiple southbound lanes were blocked due to the hazmat\/heavy truck incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cCurrently, a few lanes have been opened to flush some of the traffic but lanes will be reduced to resume cleanup,\u201d TxDOT shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">While details of the incident were not immediately disclosed, a second image showed a heavily burned, damaged big rig on the side of the highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">TxDOT said crews estimate it will take two to three hours to clear the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">ABC13 is continuing to monitor the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Multiple southbound lanes of the North Freeway at Woodlands Parkway are expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[155448,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-452303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-155448","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452303","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=452303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}