{"id":18829,"date":"2025-06-27T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18829\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:38:10","slug":"2-killed-after-driver-crashes-into-tree-causing-it-to-catch-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18829\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed after driver crashes into tree, causing it to catch fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 Two people are dead after police said they crashed their car into a tree before it caught fire overnight Friday in SW Houston. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>ALSO OVERNIGHT: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2025\/06\/27\/woman-stabbed-to-death-while-playing-game-inside-west-harris-county-convenience-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2025\/06\/27\/woman-stabbed-to-death-while-playing-game-inside-west-harris-county-convenience-store\/\">Woman stabbed to death while playing game inside west Harris County convenience store<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">It happened around 12:30 a.m. on Wilcrest just north of Bexley Drive near Beechnut and Beltway 8. Responding officers with the Houston Police Department said they found a Honda smashed into a tree, completely covered in flames, with two people dead inside.<\/p>\n<p>2 killed in fiery crash with tree in SW Houston (Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">It\u2019s unclear exactly what led up to the crash, but preliminary evidence from HPD is that the driver was going north on Wilcrest when, for unspecified reasons, left the roadway before crashing into a tree in the median. Their identities have not been released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">HPD Sgt. Griffiths said a second vehicle with two other occupants also ended up hitting the Honda after it crashed into the tree, but they were not hurt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>SEE ALSO: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2025\/06\/26\/2-major-incidents-on-fm-149-under-investigation-in-montgomery-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2025\/06\/26\/2-major-incidents-on-fm-149-under-investigation-in-montgomery-county\/\">Man killed in crash after fleeing home where stepfather found dead with stab wounds in Magnolia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">No additional information has been shared, as of this writing, but an investigation remains underway. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Stay on top of breaking news as it happens by signing up for our alerts.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Two people are dead after police said they crashed their car into a tree before it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[2696,7740,4903,17806,17807,4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-18829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-accidents","9":"tag-car-accidents","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-deadly-crash","12":"tag-fiery-crash","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114754899406493298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829","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=18829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}