A motor vehicle incident occurred at Westheimer Road and Black Gray Falls Drive in Fort Bend County at 3:15 AM on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. The incident was classified as major severity.
The intersection has emerged as a high-risk location within the Houston-Galveston region. Over the past 30 days, the corridor has recorded 85 total incidents, with 50 classified as major. Extending the analysis to 90 days reveals 185 total incidents, 104 major, and 6 fatalities at this location.
While this particular incident occurred during off-peak hours, the corridor's incident profile shows broader patterns of concern. Rush hour incidents account for 30 percent of the 90-day total at this intersection, though the dominant time pattern remains off-peak. Crashes are the most common incident type, representing the primary safety issue across the three-month window.
Fort Bend County recorded 1,299 traffic incidents over the 30-day period, with one fatality countywide. The Westheimer and Black Gray Falls corridor represents a concentrated point of incident activity within the county's broader traffic environment.
Weather conditions at the time of the incident were broken clouds with a temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
The extreme incident count at this intersection—85 incidents in 30 days—places it among the highest-frequency locations in the LTA database. The sustained volume of crashes, particularly the concentration of major incidents, indicates a persistent safety concern that extends beyond any single event.
Data on lane closures, vehicle descriptions, and injury information for this specific incident was not available at time of publication.
At this location, 85 crashes had been documented in the 30 days before this one.
296 more crashes at this location followed this incident. 142 of the more recent crashes were major. 1 of the crashes after this one was fatal.
Crash frequency has been roughly consistent before and after this incident.
Some of those crashes occurred within days of each other.
Combined, those numbers put the location among the most active in the county.
Through August 21, 2026.
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