{"id":180662,"date":"2025-08-27T20:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180662\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T20:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:53:18","slug":"off-duty-metro-police-officer-injured-in-houston-crash-at-cullen-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180662\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty METRO police officer injured in Houston crash at Cullen, Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3994F455070E1F64A5B6BE5C476BEC2C.jpg\" alt=\"FULL UPDATE: METRO officer injured in crash\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-fa1f2118=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/video\/1698328\" data-v-fa1f2118=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FULL UPDATE: METRO officer injured in crash<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-fa1f2118=\"\">An off-duty METRO police officer was injured in a crash while escorting a funeral procession on Wednesday. The Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office provides an update on the investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; An off-duty METRO police officer was taken to the hospital after a crash on Houston&#8217;s south side on Wednesday afternoon, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>   Officer injured in crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">According to the Houston Police Department, the crash occurred around 1:30 p.m. at Fellows and Cullen.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">METRO says the officer was escorting a funeral procession when the officer was struck by another vehicle. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says the officer was on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/snapshot-2025-08-27t152936.215.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Pearland EMS responded to provide medical care and transport the officer to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Sheriff Gonzalez said the officer was in critical condition. However, METRO says the officer was conscious and breathing, and the officer&#8217;s injuries don&#8217;t appear to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The officer who was injured has not been identified.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The investigation is still ongoing. The sheriff&#8217;s office could not yet say if anyone would be charged in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The 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-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FULL UPDATE: METRO officer injured in crash An off-duty METRO police officer was injured in a crash while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":180663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6386,4345,50,358,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-180662","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-news","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115102719519026835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180662","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=180662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}