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Vehicle Collision at State Highway 288 North and I-610 West in Harris County

📅 May 07, 2026 at 02:53 AMBy LTA Newsroom📍 State Hwy-288 N & I-610 WHarris County

A vehicle collision with injuries occurred at State Highway 288 North and I-610 West at 2:53 AM on Thursday, May 07, 2026. The incident was classified as major severity.

The crash site sits within a corridor experiencing extreme incident density. Over the past 30 days, State Highway 288 North at I-610 West has recorded 17 total incidents, including 10 classified as major, according to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data. The 90-day window shows 50 total incidents at this location, with 38 major and 1 fatal. The pattern spans the full year: 50 incidents recorded across 12 months, 38 major and 1 fatal.

Weather conditions at the time of the crash were overcast clouds with temperatures at 69°F. Road conditions were clear.

The location's incident profile reveals a dominant off-peak pattern. While 23 percent of the 90-day incident share at this intersection occurred during rush hours, the corridor's most common incident time window falls outside peak commute periods. The highest-incident day across the past 90 days was Monday, with 12 recorded incidents. The peak crash hour at this location remains 3 PM to 4 PM, which generated 6 incidents in the 90-day period.

Car crashes represent the most common incident type at this intersection over the past 90 days.

Harris County recorded 19,149 total traffic incidents over the past 30 days, with 35 fatal crashes. The State Highway 288 North and I-610 West intersection represents a concentrated segment of regional incident activity.

LTA maintains a real-time incident database tracking 70,263 incidents across the 13-county Houston-Galveston region, with updates every two minutes. Government sources such as TxDOT publish crash data on an annual reporting cycle.

📍 Incident Location

State Hwy-288 N & I-610 W

Harris County, Texas

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