{"id":96413,"date":"2025-12-21T20:19:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/96413\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T20:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:19:32","slug":"fred-hartman-bridge-reopens-after-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/96413\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Hartman Bridge reopens after fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">LA PORTE, Texas &#8211; The Fred Hartman Bridge has reopened in La Porte following a fatal crash that remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>   La Porte traffic: Fatal Fred Hartman Bridge crash <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image_360.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lpoem\/posts\/pfbid02Q12mXy8GbUCNn3SDsk2RJr814zou9ptyifdgy9EZp5REoAWdf1F3pULpRN5MYgSKl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Officials say<\/a> the crash was in the northbound lanes of the bridge on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Drivers in those lanes were being directed to the right shoulder, but the lanes have since reopened.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1277353761085020&amp;set=a.221346413352432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to the Precinct 8 Harris County Constable&#8217;s Office<\/a>, there was a stalled vehicle on the bridge that was towing a boat and a trailer. A second vehicle allegedly drifted over the yellow fog line and struck the boat and the trailer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The driver of the second vehicle was pronounced deceased.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The two people in the first vehicle were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">No one involved has been identified at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: La Porte Office of Emergency Management and the Harris County Precinct 8 Constable&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\/laporte\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Porte<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA PORTE, Texas &#8211; The Fred Hartman Bridge has reopened in La Porte following a fatal crash that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[405,56,58,57,13495,223,272,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-96413","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-laporte","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-traffic","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413","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=96413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}