A crash on Southwest Freeway inbound at West Loop South early Saturday morning added to a surge of incidents at this Harris County interchange. The wreck happened at 2:34 AM on July 4, 2026.
Responding officers worked the scene in clear conditions. Traffic moved through the area with delays while the incident was cleared.
This crash is one of 19 incidents recorded at this exact location over the past 30 days, according to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data. Over a 90-day window, the corridor logged 71 total incidents, with 49 classified as major. In the past 12 months, 129 crashes have occurred here, including 5 fatalities.
The intersection sits in a broader corridor with a distinct timing pattern. Most crashes at this location fall outside the weekday commute peaks; the single busiest hour is 3 to 4 AM, when five crashes were recorded over the 90-day sample period.
State crash records paint a fuller picture of conditions here. Per TxDOT CRIS public crash records, 395 crashes have occurred within approximately a quarter-mile of this location since January 2020. Contributing factors as recorded by the investigating officer show "Failed To Control Speed" as the most common factor across 99 crashes at the corridor. Hit-and-run incidents account for 13.0 percent of all crashes here—107 of 820 vehicle units involved in collisions at this location did not remain at the scene.
The Saturday morning incident cleared and traffic resumed normal flow.
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