{"id":460807,"date":"2026-10-09T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460807\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:06:09","slug":"11-year-old-boy-hospitalized-after-getting-hit-by-car-on-sh-6-near-branch-forest-in-west-houston-dps-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460807\/","title":{"rendered":"11-year-old boy hospitalized after getting hit by car on SH 6 near Branch Forest in west Houston, DPS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<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\/10\/1791518769_565_origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 9, 2026 3:33AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas  (KTRK) &#8212; An 11-year-old boy was hospitalized after he was hit by a car Thursday evening in west Houston, according to DPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said the boy was walking with his mother along Highway 6 near Branch Forest when he ran out into the road and was struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Moments before the crash, DPS said a trooper pulled over a driver in a gas station parking lot. Investigators initially believed the driver who was stopped also struck the boy, but later said the driver of a different car hit him. They did not say if the striking driver stayed at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The boy was listed in stable condition at Memorial Hermann hospital, according to DPS.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock Friday, October 9, 2026 3:33AM HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[157568,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-460807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-157568","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460807","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=460807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}