{"id":461681,"date":"2026-10-09T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461681\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:54:08","slug":"fatal-car-crash-closes-east-freeway-southbound-lanes-amid-friday-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461681\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal car crash closes East Freeway southbound lanes amid Friday rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fatal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/crime\/article\/jailer-crash-shooting-assault-charges-22466826.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">car crash <\/a>on Friday has shut down all southbound lanes of the East Freeway near Clinton Drive in east Houston.<\/p>\n<p>TranStar reported two vehicles collided around 1:46 p.m., causing all the mainlanes, left shoulder and right shoulder to be closed. All southbound traffic is being redirected onto the feeder road.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Transportation said in a social media post that it&#8217;s unclear when the lanes will reopen.<\/p>\n<p>Commuters can instead take I-10 to Highway 90 to reach I-45, or take I-10 to the Beltway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fatal car crash on Friday has shut down all southbound lanes of the East Freeway near Clinton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-461681","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\/461681","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=461681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}