Independent traffic crash news for the 13-county Houston–Galveston region
Local Traffic Accidents (LTA) is an independent news publisher covering traffic crashes across the 13-county Houston–Galveston region. We report what happened, where, when, and how serious it was — on the day it happens — and we keep the record, so a crash on a specific road on a specific date can still be found weeks later.
Our reporting is original. Every report starts from public-safety dispatch and transportation records that we collect ourselves. We do not scrape, rewrite, or aggregate the stories of other news stations or newspapers.
LTA is published by Local Traffic Accidents, LLC, an independently owned Texas company based in the Houston area. It was founded and is edited by Dennis R. Mundy, Executive Editor, a former Fairfax County, Virginia police officer and accident investigator who has practiced law for more than 35 years. Every report on LTA is published under his editorial responsibility.
LTA was founded by Dennis R. Mundy, whose professional background bridges public safety operations and complex legal analysis.
Mr. Mundy began his career in public service as a police officer in Fairfax County, Virginia, where he specialized in traffic operations and accident reconstruction. In March 1981, he was awarded the Fairfax County Police Department’s Meritorious Action Award for performance above and beyond the call of duty during a critical field incident.
Following an on-duty injury that concluded his law enforcement career, he transitioned to the private sector, earning degrees in accounting, finance, and law. He holds a Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law Houston and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Houston.
A licensed attorney in both Texas and New York with over 35 years of professional legal experience, Mr. Mundy has served as chief legal officer and chief strategy officer for multiple national organizations. His unique combination of on-the-scene forensic crash investigation experience and decades of navigating complex statutory data frameworks shapes LTA’s rigorous editorial standards.
Factual incident reports: the location, time, severity, and responding agencies for crashes, road hazards, and closures across the region. Daily and weekly roundups. County and precinct pages. A dangerous-streets series built on the Texas Department of Transportation’s official crash records. Coverage in English and Spanish.
We do not publish opinion, speculation about fault, or the names of people involved in crashes.
Our reports begin with official and monitored public-safety sources: Houston TranStar’s incident system, Houston Emergency Center police and fire dispatch records, county and emergency-services-district incident feeds across the region, and fire and EMS dispatch radio in Harris and Montgomery counties, which we monitor and transcribe.
Historical and statistical reporting draws on CRIS, the state’s official record of police-reported crashes, which currently covers January 2020 through September 28, 2026 — 1,193,182 crashes in the 13-county region. LTA’s own incident record holds 229,143 reported incidents.
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People search for a crash because they were in it, saw it, or are stuck behind it. Regional television and newspapers cover a handful of crashes a day; traffic maps and navigation apps show what is happening now and nothing afterwards. LTA exists to fill that gap: a reported, searchable record of traffic crashes for the whole region, in both languages, that stays available after the lanes reopen.
The 13 counties of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area:
Local Traffic Accidents, LLC is independently owned and funded by its founder. LTA carries no advertising and no sponsored content, does not sell or refer reader information, and does not provide attorney-referral or lead-generation services. Editorial decisions are made by the Executive Editor alone.
LTA does not capture or process user identification for commercial purposes.
If a report contains an error, we correct it as soon as it is identified. Report an error, send a tip, or reach the editor at editor@localtrafficaccidents.com, or use our Contact page. Our Corrections Policy is on the Editorial page.
