A major crash shut lanes on the North Sam Houston Tollway westbound at Wilson Road early Sunday morning, with the wreck reported at 12:29 AM on May 31.
Responding officers worked to clear the scene after the collision. No details on injuries or vehicle count were immediately available, but the road's heavy incident history made even an overnight wreck a concern for early-morning traffic flow.
This stretch of the Sam Houston has become one of the region's most active crash corridors. According to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data, the location has logged 55 total incidents in the past 30 days alone—37 of them major crashes. Over a 90-day window, the corridor recorded 161 incidents, including 82 major crashes and 4 fatalities. The pattern extends across the past 12 months as well, with 189 total incidents and 97 major crashes documented at this location.
State crash records paint an additional picture of this intersection's activity. Per TxDOT CRIS public crash records, the corridor has seen 398 crashes since January 2020. Contributing factors as recorded by investigating officers show that "Failed To Yield Right Of Way - Turning Left" accounts for 51 of those crashes—the single most common recorded factor at the location. Hit-and-run incidents occur at a rate of 15.8 percent, representing 124 of the 785 vehicle units involved in documented crashes over that period.
While Sunday mornings typically fall outside the peak crash window at this location—90-day data shows only 26 percent of crashes here occur during traditional rush hours—the corridor sees crashes at varied times rather than concentrating in any single window. Mondays have historically been the highest-incident day, with 19 crashes over a 90-day span. The peak crash hour, however, is 6 PM to 7 PM, when 8 crashes were recorded over the same period.
Conditions at the time of early Sunday's wreck were clear, with temperatures near 78 degrees. The road was cleared following standard incident response procedures.
North Sam Houston Tollway Westbound at Wilson Rd
Harris County, Texas
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