{"id":297898,"date":"2025-10-12T18:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297898\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:14:21","slug":"humble-northbound-eastex-freeway-was-closed-off-due-to-fatal-wrong-way-crash-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297898\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble: Northbound Eastex Freeway was closed off due to fatal wrong-way crash, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>HUMBLE, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; A woman is dead, and an investigation is said to be underway following a reported wrong-way crash on the Eastex Freeway.<\/p>\n<p>   Harris County traffic: I-69 Eastex Freeway crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The crash was reported Saturday afternoon on I-69 North <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@30.0158458,-95.2609675,15.25z?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTAwOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">near Townsen Boulevard<\/a>. The highway was announced back open at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimewatch.net\/us\/tx\/harris\/humble-pd\/242792\/broadcasts\/highway-back-open?fbclid=IwY2xjawNYtbJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkuyMmc-_59posPgD5T4_HcLkgv5QHL2wA05gQHsK08Bptdyjn1cTyztXR7f_aem_gbjNuO3oNm7P1DpEqC6O8w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approximately 7:58 p.m.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/g3ak7_qw8aev5oc.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  Investigation underway <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Humble police&#8217;s Lt. Burt says a two-vehicle crash resulted in the fatality of a 22-year-old woman. CPR was performed on the scene, and she was pronounced dead in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Humble police tell FOX 26 that a 52-year-old male was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of the Eastex Freeway. He was in the right lane when the head-on collision occurred.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">This investigation is ongoing and police are investigating the male going the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">No one involved has been identified at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Harris County Lt. Terry Garza, and Humble Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\/humble\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Humble<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUMBLE, Texas &#8211; A woman is dead, and an investigation is said to be underway following a reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":297899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6386,4345,64095,50,358,314,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-297898","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-humble","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-traffic","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297898","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=297898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}