{"id":85641,"date":"2025-12-12T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/85641\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:33:29","slug":"pedestrian-fatally-struck-by-metro-bus-in-southwest-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/85641\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian fatally struck by METRO bus in Southwest Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A deadly accident involving a METRO bus and a pedestrian is impacting traffic in Southwest Houston.<\/p>\n<p>   Southwest Houston: Deadly METRO bus crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The accident was reported at about 4 a.m. Friday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/N+Holmes+Rd,+Houston,+TX\/@29.6525226,-95.4469391,16z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8640ea60fdc92d91:0x5538885d60b3f336!8m2!3d29.6570866!4d-95.4392144!16s%2Fg%2F1w9y1h48?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA2N0gBUAM%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">North Holmes Road near Hiram Clarke Road<\/a>. Traffic is being redirected as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/metro.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">METRO Police say a bus was going west on Holmes for a routine road test when a pedestrian walked into the roadway. The driver wasn&#8217;t able to stop the bus before it struck the pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The pedestrian was taken to a hospital, but was later pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">METRO Police are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">No other information is available at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: OnScene and METRO Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/transportation\/metro\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Metro<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A deadly accident involving a METRO bus and a pedestrian is impacting traffic in Southwest Houston.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,5761,223,272,840,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-85641","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-metro","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-traffic","14":"tag-transportation","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85641","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=85641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}