A major crash shut down lanes on IH-45 North northbound at Greens Road at 1:01 AM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. The incident occurred during off-peak hours in Harris County.
The crash marks the 17th incident at this location in the past 30 days, according to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data. Over a 90-day period, IH-45 North at Greens Road has recorded 69 total incidents, with 46 classified as major. The corridor's incident density places it among the region's most active crash locations.
Traffic was diverted to alternate routes including Hardy Toll Road, SH-249 to the northwest, and local streets via Airline Drive. Northbound access to the freeway at Greens Road remained restricted during the incident response.
The location shows a distinct time-pattern distribution. While rush hour crashes account for 31 percent of the 90-day incident total at this intersection, the corridor experiences crashes throughout the day and night. Wednesdays have been the most frequent incident day at this location, with 15 crashes recorded over the past 90 days. The peak crash hour is 7 AM to 8 AM, which saw seven incidents in the same period.
The dominant incident type at IH-45 North and Greens Road is vehicle crash, consistent with the location's recent history. Weather conditions at the time of this incident—overcast clouds at 77 degrees Fahrenheit—did not present adverse visibility or wet-road factors.
Harris County recorded 18,622 total traffic incidents in the past 30 days, including 39 fatal crashes. The LTA real-time incident database tracks 64,856 incidents across the 13-county Houston-Galveston region, updated every two minutes. Government sources such as TxDOT publish crash data on an annual basis.
Motorists traveling northbound on IH-45 in the area should expect delays. The incident remained under investigation at the time of this report.
Sources: TxDOT Crash Records Information System and Local Traffic Accidents database. Counts through October 1, 2026.
Before this incident, the location logged 16 crashes over the prior 30 days.
In the period since this crash, 145 additional incidents have occurred here. 78 carried major-severity classification.
The rate has held at a comparable level after this incident.
Some of those crashes occurred within days of each other.
That combined total ranks the location high among county incident sites.
Data updated as of October 10, 2026.
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