A vehicle collision at 1101 Emancipation Ave in Harris County early Monday morning at 12:11 AM added to a troubling pattern on this residential stretch. The crash underscores what the data shows: this location has seen 35 incidents in the past 30 days alone, with 12 of those classified as major.
Respoding officers worked the scene in the pre-dawn hours. Details on injuries, vehicle count, and lane closures were not immediately available.
The broader picture is striking. According to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data, this one-mile radius around Emancipation Ave recorded 471 crashes in the 30 days before this incident. Since the crash early Monday, an additional four incidents have been documented in that same radius.
Looking back further, the 90-day incident count at this location stands at 147 total crashes, 80 of them major. Over the past 12 months, the LTA database shows 344 total incidents, 176 major, and 4 fatal crashes at this address.
Per TxDOT CRIS public crash records covering the broader corridor since January 2020, contributing factors as recorded by the investigating officer show "Failed To Control Speed" as the leading factor, cited in 196 crashes. The hit-and-run rate in the same timeframe stands at 10.9 percent.
Interestingly, the timing pattern at this location differs from typical Houston traffic patterns. Crashes here skew toward the weekend rather than the weekday commute, with the single busiest hour being 6–7 PM. The highest-incident day over the past 90 days was Sunday, with 23 recorded incidents.
Weather conditions at the time of the early-Monday crash were scattered clouds and 82 degrees.
The incident was cleared and traffic returned to normal flow.
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.