{"id":482415,"date":"2026-10-31T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482415\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:08:11","slug":"driver-killed-in-high-speed-crash-on-sam-houston-parkway-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482415\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed in high-speed crash on Sam Houston Parkway in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vlcsnap-2026-10-31-07h35m21s727.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-31bc2d2e=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A man was killed early Saturday morning in a single-vehicle crash after hitting a pole at high speed in southwest Houston, police said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Houston police responded around 3 a.m. to the intersection of South Sam Houston Parkway and South Post Oak Road after an off-duty officer witnessed a vehicle go through the intersection at a high rate of speed before hitting a pole.<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Police said the impact split the vehicle in two and ejected the driver, who is believed to be an 18-year-old man. Houston Fire Department crews attempted to save the man, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Investigators have not determined if alcohol was a factor in the crash. The victim&#8217;s identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Houston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HOUSTON &#8211; A man was killed early Saturday morning in a single-vehicle crash after hitting a pole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-482415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","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\/482415","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=482415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}