{"id":453205,"date":"2026-10-01T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453205\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:02:11","slug":"hpd-officer-hospitalized-driver-dead-after-crash-on-eastex-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453205\/","title":{"rendered":"HPD officer hospitalized, driver dead after crash on Eastex Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston Police Department officer is hospitalized after their patrol car was hit by a pickup truck in the north Houston area.<\/p>\n<p>   Police involved crash\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston police officers were blocking traffic on the northbound side of Highway 59 at the 610 Loop near Kashmere Gardens, assisting with a traffic hazard call. A semi-truck had leaked part of its payload onto the roadway, according to Sergeant Mike Barrow.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-2026-10-01-073321.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy of OnScene TV Houston <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">While police were blocking traffic, a female driver traveling at a high rate of speed in a red pickup truck crashed into the back of an HPD patrol vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">One officer was taken to a local hospital in stable condition and is expected to be okay. The female driver of the pickup truck was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/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=\"\">It remains unknown if intoxication played a role in the crash. The identity of the deceased pickup truck driver has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was provided by Houston Police Department Sergeant Mike Barrow.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/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; A Houston Police Department officer is hospitalized after their patrol car was hit by a pickup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-453205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453205","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=453205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}