{"id":86896,"date":"2025-12-13T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86896\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:03:08","slug":"driver-dies-after-hitting-light-pole-while-exiting-north-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/86896\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies after hitting light pole while exiting North Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/vlcsnap-2025-12-13-09h12m11s832.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; One person was killed after they lost control of their truck and hit a light pole while exiting the North Freeway, authorities said.<\/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 around 11:20 p.m. near Spring Cypress Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Witnesses told the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office that a Ram 1500 attempted to exit the freeway at a high rate of speed and lost control before striking a light pole.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The driver was the only occupant of the truck and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/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 victim&#8217;s identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HARRIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; One person was killed after they lost control of their truck and hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86897,"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-86896","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\/86896","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=86896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}