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Traffic Hazard Reported on Kempwood Drive in Harris County

May 04, 2026 at 12:36 AMUpdated August 20, 2026By Dennis R. Mundy, Executive Editor📍 Harris County

A traffic hazard was reported at 10703 Kempwood Dr in Harris County at 12:36 AM on Monday, May 04, 2026. The incident was classified as major severity on the residential roadway during off-peak hours.

According to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data, Kempwood Drive has recorded 11 incidents over the past 30 days, placing the location in the high-incident category. Over a 90-day period, the corridor logged 32 total incidents, with 22 classified as major. The 12-month total stands at 33 incidents, 23 of which were major.

Crash activity on this residential corridor follows a distinct temporal pattern. Mondays account for the highest incident frequency at this location, with eight incidents recorded over the past 90 days. The peak crash hour occurs between 8 AM and 9 AM, when four incidents occurred during the same period. Despite this morning concentration, the dominant incident pattern at Kempwood Drive remains off-peak, with 61 percent of crashes occurring outside traditional rush hours. Rush hour incidents comprise 39 percent of the 90-day total.

The most common incident type at this location is crash activity, reflecting the pattern across the 90-day analysis window.

Weather conditions at the time of the incident were overcast clouds with a temperature of 63 degrees Fahrenheit.

Harris County recorded 19,085 total traffic incidents over the past 30 days, including 39 fatal crashes, according to the LTA real-time incident database. LTA tracks 68,362 incidents across the 13-county Houston-Galveston region, with updates every two minutes. Annual crash data for Texas is published by TxDOT through the CRIS reporting system.

📊 Location Analysis

Looking at the 30 days before this crash, the location had documented 10 incidents.

In the 110 days since this incident, the location has seen 46 more crashes. 26 of the more recent crashes were major.

The pace has shifted upward since this crash.

A stretch of consecutive days brought several crashes to this location.

The aggregate count puts this location in the most active tier of county crash sites.

Recent Incidents at This Location

Data through August 20, 2026.

📍 Incident Location

10703 Kempwood Dr

Harris County, Texas

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How This Report Was Produced

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.

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