A major freeway corridor serving Precinct 1 communities has logged 76 incidents over the past 30 days, with crashes as the dominant incident type. The corridor operates in an extreme heat category.
Peak activity occurs during 1 PM-2 PM windows, averaging 13 incidents per hour. Tuesday records the highest daily count at 34 incidents. Friday's off-peak periods account for approximately 30 percent of location activity.
Current conditions: broken clouds, 88°F, 6.2-mile visibility.
**LTA Newsroom**
**Update (9:25 PM CT):** The major crash at KATY FWY OB, first reported at 1:22 PM, has cleared after more than 8 hours. All lanes have reopened and normal traffic flow has resumed in the area.
74 crashes had already been logged here in the month before this incident.
Crashes at this location have continued — 29 more have been recorded since. Among them, 15 were major crashes.
The location has seen fewer crashes per week since this incident.
A burst of crashes followed within a compressed period.
That places this location among the highest-incident segments in the county.
Updated through May 29, 2026.
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