{"id":52919,"date":"2025-11-17T13:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/52919\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:38:08","slug":"houston-traffic-pedestrian-walking-on-i-45-dead-after-hit-metro-bus-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/52919\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston traffic: Pedestrian walking on I-45 dead after hit METRO bus, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police are investigating an accident in north Houston that is causing traffic delays on I-45 southbound.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">On Monday morning, police reported they received a call about someone walking on the freeway in the 10500 block of the North Freeway.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-25.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">METRO officials say a male pedestrian was walking in the HOV lane and was hit by a METRO bus side bumper. According to METRO, the pedestrian was confirmed dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/fox-local\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get news, weather and so much more by downloading the FOX LOCAL app<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Authorities are at the scene to continue their investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">There is a traffic delay, officials say. The HOV lane is currently closed from Parramatta to West Road and the West Road HOV entrance is open, but drivers should expect delays.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police are investigating an accident in north Houston that is causing traffic delays on I-45&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-52919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52919","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=52919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}