A traffic collision with injuries occurred at the intersection of Crosstimbers Street and Yale Street at 3:57 AM on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. The incident was classified as major severity.
The intersection has recorded 29 total incidents over the past 30 days, according to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data. Over the past 90 days, the location has logged 92 total incidents, including 48 major crashes and 2 fatalities. In the past 12 months, 99 incidents have been documented at this Harris County intersection, with 53 classified as major.
The collision occurred during an off-peak hour. The data shows this intersection is not primarily a rush hour danger zone—only 41 percent of the 90-day incidents occurred during peak periods. Instead, crashes at Crosstimbers and Yale distribute across the day and night, with off-peak hours accounting for the dominant share of incidents. Thursdays have been the highest-incident day at this location over the past 90 days, with 18 crashes recorded. The peak crash hour is 4 PM to 5 PM, when 10 incidents occurred during the 90-day window.
The most common incident type at this intersection over 90 days is traffic crash, consistent with the collision pattern documented in the real-time incident database.
Conditions at the time of the incident were clear skies and 67 degrees Fahrenheit.
Harris County recorded 19,004 total incidents in the past 30 days, with 30 fatalities.
Update (12:00 PM CT): The major crash at Crosstimbers St & Yale St, first reported at 3:57 AM, has cleared after more than 8 hours. All lanes have reopened and normal traffic flow has resumed in the area.
Sources: TxDOT Crash Records Information System and Local Traffic Accidents database. Counts through October 1, 2026.
In the four weeks before this crash, 28 incidents had piled up at this location.
73 more crashes have been recorded at this location in the time since. Major collisions accounted for 46 of those incidents.
The recent run shows crashes coming slower than before.
Some of those crashes occurred within days of each other.
The combined before-and-after total places this location in the upper tier of county incident counts.
Counts reflect data through October 06, 2026.
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