{"id":173520,"date":"2025-08-25T05:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173520\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:14:09","slug":"houston-police-suv-crashes-through-fence-dangles-in-familys-pool-in-the-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/173520\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston police SUV crashes through fence, dangles in family\u2019s pool in The Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 Officials and residents in The Heights say a police SUV crashed through a fence and dangled over a sun ledge inside a pool at a home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">HPD says the crash happened Sunday evening at approximately 5:35 p.m. as the officer sped up to pull a driver over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The incident played out at the corner of White Oak and Cortland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The area is a popular stretch for traffic, not only for vehicles, but also for residents who walk the sidewalks regularly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">While nobody was walking in front of the home at the time of the incident, it is what was happening beside the home that was a different story.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">KPRC 2 captured video of the HPD SUV hanging on a sun ledge connected to the family pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Neighbors say they were surprised and shocked and had never seen something like this happen. Many were also wondering about the officer who was limping around before being transported to the hospital with a lower leg injury, according to the Houston Fire Department. However, it was what was happening in the pool just prior to the crash that had officials saying it could have been much worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe did hear from the homeowners that there were people in the spa area, just prior to it or just right around the same time but nobody was injured as far as any homeowners or individuals that lived at the house,\u201d said HFD Senior Captain Ross Elmblad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">First responders told us the people in the spa area of the pool were children. Elmblad told us he had heard the same.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">An HPD spokesperson Sunday night said the officer saw another driver driving their vehicle erratically. As they sped up to pull the vehicle over, the officer struck an SUV that was attempting to cross the street after stopping at a stop sign. The impact knocked the officer\u2019s SUV to the side, and he sped right into the fence before he landed his front wheels in the pool. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s shocking that the car didn\u2019t hit the post or the stop sign and just went right between, right through the fence,\u201d said Pamela Ferguson, a resident in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">HPD says an investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Officials and residents in The Heights say a police SUV crashed through a fence and dangled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":173521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4903,4345,5429,358,24016,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-173520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crash","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-police-department","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-the-heights","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115087701887411898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}