{"id":86835,"date":"2025-12-13T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86835\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:39:08","slug":"houston-police-wrecker-hits-disabled-car-on-southwest-freeway-kills-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86835\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston police: Wrecker hits disabled car on Southwest Freeway, kills driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/vlcsnap-2025-12-13-08h52m08s401.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police said a wrecker driver hit a disabled car on the Southwest Freeway, killing the driver.<\/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 crash happened on the Southwest Freeway near Westpark Drive around 2 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Sgt. Michael Barrow said a black Mazda sedan was disabled in a southbound lane when it was hit by a wrecker driver and pushed up the freeway.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The driver of the Mazda died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Barrow said the wrecker driver was not injured and was cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">No charges have been filed in the crash, Barrow said.<\/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=\"\">The name of the victim has not yet 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-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police said a wrecker driver hit a disabled car on the Southwest Freeway, killing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-86835","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-tx","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86835","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=86835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}