{"id":52074,"date":"2025-11-16T18:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/52074\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T18:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T18:10:34","slug":"houston-motorcycle-crash-involving-backhoe-leave-1-dead-on-sh-249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/52074\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston motorcycle crash involving backhoe leave 1 dead on SH 249"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763316633_527_0FA13A04C40BC54E38C2C2D9EA5FE4AD.jpg\" alt=\"Houston news today: Power plant fire; teen shot; SNAP benefits\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A motorcyclist died after crashing into a backhoe that police suspect was stolen. Police say the person driving the backhoe then fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>   Deadly motorcycle crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The crash occurred around 1:15 a.m. in the southbound lanes of SH 249, near Greens Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police say the motorcycle rider struck the back of a backhoe that they believe was stolen from a construction site.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backhoe continued into a ditch, where the driver abandoned it, police say.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/vlcsnap-2025-11-16-11h21m57s811.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The motorcyclist died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police are investigating the incident as a failure to stop and render aid case.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The motorcyclist has not been identified. There is no description of the person police believe was driving the backhoe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The 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-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A motorcyclist died after crashing into a backhoe that police suspect was stolen. Police say the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[405,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-52074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-harris-county","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52074","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=52074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}