A major non-fatal crash occurred Saturday on a residential surface street within Precinct 4's service area (Spring, Klein, Tomball, Cypress, Champions, Willowbrook, FM 1960).
This residential corridor has logged 22 crashes over the past 30 days, marking it as an extreme-heat area. Historically, Tuesdays see the heaviest impact here, with 12 incidents recorded, though the peak incident hour runs 7 PM-8 PM at 4 crashes. Saturday typically accounts for 35% of activity at this location.
Conditions at time of incident: scattered clouds, 79°F, 6.2-mile visibility.
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Update (6:50 AM CT): The major crash at 21999 LOOP 494, first reported at 10:48 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.
In the four weeks before this crash, 21 incidents had piled up at this location.
56 crashes have happened at this location after this incident. 39 of the more recent crashes were major.
The location's crash rate has eased in the months since.
A cluster of those crashes happened within roughly two weeks.
Combined, those incidents make this one of the highest-volume crash locations in the area.
Numbers current through September 29, 2026.
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