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TRAFFIC HAZARD ON MAJOR FREEWAY | Harris County Precinct 1

May 15, 2026 at 08:07 PMUpdated May 29, 2026By Dennis R. Mundy, Executive Editor📍 Harris County

A traffic hazard has been reported on a major freeway corridor serving Precinct 1 communities including Midtown, Downtown, Spring Branch, and the Heights on Friday during off-peak hours.

Visibility was reduced to 6.2 miles under broken cloud cover with temperatures at 78°F at the time of the incident.

This corridor has logged 56 incidents over the past 30 days. Peak activity on this stretch typically occurs between 5 PM–6 PM (8 incidents), with Sundays recording the highest daily count at 17 incidents.

**LTA Newsroom**

**Update (4:10 AM CT):** The major crash at 9 W GREENS RD @ 12501 NORTH FWY IB, first reported at 8:07 PM, has cleared after more than 8 hours. All lanes have reopened and normal traffic flow has resumed in the area.

📊 Location Analysis

The location had seen 54 crashes in the 30 days leading up to this incident.

Since this crash, 13 more incidents have occurred at this location. 6 have been logged as major collisions.

Crashes have come less often at this location since this incident.

A run of crashes occurred over a span of days.

Those numbers rank the location among the most incident-heavy stretches nearby.

Recent Incidents at This Location

Through May 29, 2026.

📍 Incident Location

9 W GREENS RD @ 12501 NORTH FWY IB

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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