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HOUSTON – An investigation is underway after a deadly crash involving an Amazon vehicle in southwest Houston on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Houston crash involving Amazon truck <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The crash was reported just before 11 p.m. Friday at the SH-288 feeder road at South Sam Houston Parkway West<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to an investigator at the scene, footage showed the Amazon vehicle running a red light before crashing into a sedan. The driver of the sedan allegedly wasn’t wearing his seatbelt and was ejected from his vehicle.<\/p>\n First responders arrived at the scene and pronounced the sedan driver deceased. The investigator described the victim as a Black man, possibly in his late 20s to early 30s.<\/p>\n The crash remains under investigation, and no charges have been filed at this time.<\/p>\n According to the investigator, the Amazon driver claimed he had a yellow light before the crash, but the truck’s dash camera footage showed the driver having a red light at the time.<\/p>\n Authorities say it’s possible that the Amazon driver was “blinded” by another set of traffic lights nearby that were green at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n No one involved has been identified.<\/p>\n The Source: OnScene and Harris County Deputy Investigator T. Chacon.<\/p>\n Houston<\/a>Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – An investigation is underway after a deadly crash involving an Amazon vehicle in southwest Houston on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,272,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-69801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-traffic","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69801","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=69801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}