{"id":989982,"date":"2026-08-09T00:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/989982\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T00:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:10:23","slug":"woman-killed-in-high-speed-crash-after-running-red-lights-in-southeast-houston-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/989982\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in high-speed crash after running red lights in southeast Houston, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 Houston police are investigating a deadly two-vehicle crash that happened early Saturday around 1:40 a.m. at the intersection of Telephone Road and Reveille Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">According to preliminary information, a car was traveling south on Reveille at a high rate of speed when it went through two red lights and struck another vehicle in the intersection. Officers and medics tried lifesaving measures, but the driver of the speeding vehicle \u2014 a woman in her 20s \u2014 was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 etvbxt font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The other driver suffered injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. Police said each vehicle had a single occupant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Lashanda Simmons, who lives in the area, said she heard the crash and went outside to check the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cIt looked bad, it looked really bad. And come to find out it\u2019s a young lady who\u2019s deceased. It\u2019s sad the way things are happening these days,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I pray for the family, to put God in their life to get through this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Simmons said she\u2019s seen multiple dangerous incidents happen in the area of the crash and urged caution for drivers. Only a few hours before this incident, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/08\/man-in-wheelchair-killed-in-crosswalk-houston-police-searching-for-hit-and-run-driver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/08\/man-in-wheelchair-killed-in-crosswalk-houston-police-searching-for-hit-and-run-driver\/\">separate fatal crash<\/a> happened nearby on Westover Street. HPD said a man in a wheelchair was fatally struck by a vehicle who fled the scene.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 etvbxt font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cAround this area, you have to drive for yourself and drive for others,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s real dangerous around here, especially in the middle of the night. Its always something happening as far as wrecks, and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Houston_Police_Department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Houston_Police_Department\/\">Houston Police Department<\/a> is handling the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Houston police are investigating a deadly two-vehicle crash that happened early Saturday around 1:40 a.m. at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":989983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[23762,31979,4345,5429,14259,396991,396990,358,3187],"class_list":["post-989982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crashes","tag-fatal-crashes","tag-houston","tag-houston-police-department","tag-hpd","tag-reveille-street","tag-telephone-road","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117062652839296368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989982","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=989982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}