A crash on Westheimer Rd early Wednesday morning left at least one person injured, adding to a troubling pattern on this stretch of Harris County residential road.
Responding officers arrived at 13299 Westheimer Rd around 1:18 AM on June 24 to find a major collision. The road saw scattered clouds and mild temperatures—80 degrees—at the time of impact, conditions that typically wouldn't complicate response or recovery.
This incident marks the 23rd crash recorded at this location in the past 30 days, according to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data. Over the past three months, the corridor has logged 93 total incidents—55 of them major—with 2 fatalities. Since January 2020, state crash records show 550 crashes within about a quarter-mile of this address, including 3 fatalities.
Westheimer Rd at this location doesn't align with typical Houston commute patterns. The timing pattern here shows most crashes fall outside the weekday rush hours; the single busiest hour at this location is 2–3 PM, when 7 crashes occurred over the 90-day window. This 1 AM crash arrived in the quieter overnight window—but the frequency across all hours suggests the location itself, not time of day, is the consistent variable.
When officers investigate crashes here, one contributing factor surfaces repeatedly. Per TxDOT CRIS public crash records since January 2020, "Failed To Control Speed" appears as the recorded contributing factor in 145 crashes at this corridor—the most common factor by far. That wording comes directly from investigating officers' reports, and it's appeared in roughly one of every four crashes documented in state records.
Vehicle involvement patterns from state crash records show Toyota as the most common make involved in corridor crashes since 2020, appearing in 217 of the incidents. Hit-and-run incidents occur at 12.6% of crashes here—145 of the 1,151 vehicle units involved departed the scene without exchanging information.
Authorities cleared the scene and traffic returned to normal flow. Injury details and lane closure duration were not immediately available. The incident was entered into Harris County's 30-day incident database as the latest crash on a residential road that's recorded a major incident roughly every day for the past month.
**Update (9:20 AM CT):** The major crash at 13299 Westheimer Rd, first reported at 1:18 AM, has cleared after more than 8 hours. All lanes have reopened and normal traffic flow has resumed in the area.
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