A crash occurred on a major freeway corridor serving Precinct 6 during Friday rush hour. The incident happened under clear skies with visibility at 6.2 miles and temperatures at 85 degrees.
This freeway corridor has logged 37 crashes over the past 30 days, placing it in an extreme crash zone. The 4 PM-5 PM window is the corridor's peak incident hour, averaging 9 crashes during that period. Mondays see the highest daily count at 17 incidents on this route.
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Update (12:45 AM CT): The major crash at 1303 WACO ST @ 4399 EAST FWY IB, first reported at 4:43 PM, 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.
This wasn't the first crash at the location — 35 had been recorded in the previous 30 days.
87 more crashes have been documented at this location since this incident. Of those, 48 were major collisions.
The location's crash rate has eased in the months since.
A run of crashes occurred over a span of days.
Taken together, the counts place this stretch in the upper tier for crashes locally.
Reflecting incident data through October 08, 2026.
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