{"id":24329,"date":"2025-06-29T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/24329\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:07:15","slug":"houston-homestead-road-vehicle-flies-off-overpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/24329\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Homestead Road: Vehicle flies off overpass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; Harris County investigators are looking into a deadly crash after a vehicle flew off of an overpass early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston Homestead Road: Vehicle flies off overpass <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/homestead-overpass.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The accident allegedly happened at about 6:30 a.m. on Friday at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/12400+Homestead+Rd,+Houston,+TX+77050\/@29.9041406,-95.3037411,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640b0d0408f9e5b:0xfc310e99fd12abe3!8m2!3d29.904136!4d-95.3011662?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYyMy4yIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overpass on Homestead Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/harriscountyso.org\/News\/MediaNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County officials<\/a> identified the deceased driver as Joseph Leblanc Jr.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Based on the initial investigation, it&#8217;s believed that Leblanc was going north on Homestead when his Hyundai Sonata struck a raised concrete curb. The vehicle then started driving on the sidewalk before hitting a guardrail and becoming airborne into a fence on the jersey wall.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The vehicle then fell over 30 feet into a grassy area underneath the overpass.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The sheriff&#8217;s office was called at about 8 a.m. after the vehicle was found. Paramedics got to the scene at about 8:15 a.m., and Leblanc was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Officials say Leblanc wasn&#8217;t wearing his seatbelt at the time and multiple airbags were deployed.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The cause of the crash has not been determined at this time. The case is being investigated by the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office&#8217;s Vehicular Crimes Division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Harris County investigators are looking into a deadly crash after a vehicle flew off of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6386,4345,50,358,314,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-24329","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-traffic","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329","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=24329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}