A major traffic collision occurred at 11047 Westheimer Road on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 2:52 AM. The incident took place under mist conditions with visibility reduced.
The collision adds to an extraordinary concentration of incidents at this location. According to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data, Westheimer Road has recorded 87 incidents over the past 30 days—53 of them major collisions. Over a 90-day window, the corridor has sustained 150 total incidents, including 83 major crashes and 2 fatalities.
The location sits on a residential road in Harris County, where the broader context shows 18,417 incidents reported in the past 30 days countywide, including 40 fatalities. Westheimer Road's incident concentration far exceeds typical residential corridor patterns across the region.
Historical data reveals the corridor's peak danger occurs during midday hours. The 2 PM to 3 PM window has produced 14 incidents over the past 90 days—the highest single hourly concentration. Fridays emerge as the highest-incident day, with 23 crashes recorded over the same period. Despite the dominant daytime pattern, off-peak hours account for the majority of incidents at this location, with rush hour crashes comprising 36 percent of the 90-day total.
The incident type at this location remains consistent. Crashes dominate the incident profile across the 90-day period, making this Tuesday's major collision consistent with the corridor's primary hazard pattern.
Mist conditions were present at the time of the 2:52 AM collision. While the incident occurred outside typical peak-traffic hours, visibility-reducing weather can affect crash risk regardless of traffic volume. TxDOT reports that wet and reduced-visibility conditions contributed to over 14,000 Texas crashes in the most recent annual reporting period, underscoring the relationship between atmospheric conditions and collision frequency.
The LTA real-time incident database tracks 64,128 incidents across the 13-county Houston-Galveston region with updates every two minutes. Government sources including TxDOT publish crash data annually and maintain historical records through the CRIS system. LTA's proprietary corridor analysis identifies locations where incident frequency and severity exceed regional norms, as evidenced by the 87-incident 30-day total at this Westheimer Road address.
This collision marks the latest incident in what the data classifies as an extreme-concentration corridor. The 150-incident 90-day count and two fatalities recorded at this location during that period place it among the most incident-prone addresses tracked in the Houston-Galveston region.
Sources: TxDOT Crash Records Information System and Local Traffic Accidents database. Counts through October 1, 2026.
Going back a month from this incident, 86 crashes had been recorded at the location.
In the period since this crash, 233 additional incidents have occurred here. 109 of those were classified as major.
Crash frequency has dropped at the location after this incident.
Three of those crashes fell within a single week.
That combined total ranks the location high among county incident sites.
Updated through October 08, 2026.
This report was produced by LTA's editor-designed production system under the executive editorial direction of Dennis R. Mundy, Executive Editor. The system combines our proprietary data pipeline with AI-assisted drafting to deliver verified incident coverage to LTA's editorial standards.