Pitner Road crash in early Thursday morning

A major crash tied up Pitner Road around 1:35 AM on Thursday, September 3rd. Responding officers found the scene overcast but warm at 84 degrees.

Pitner Road sits in a busy corridor. According to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data, the location has logged 6 incidents in the past 30 days, with 14 major crashes in the past 90 days. Over the past year, Pitner Road recorded 105 total incidents, 47 of them major.

This particular crash marks the second major incident at this location in the past month. While the corridor sees crashes year-round, a clear pattern emerges: weekend traffic drives the bulk of crashes here. Saturdays are the busiest day, with 11 crashes logged over 90 days. The single most active hour is 6 to 7 AM on weekday mornings, but overnight and early-morning incidents like this one are consistent across the corridor's history.

TxDOT CRIS public crash records show that since January 2020, this quarter-mile stretch has recorded 210 crashes with no fatalities. Contributing factors as recorded by the investigating officer, per TxDOT CRIS, show "Failed To Yield Right Of Way - Turning Left" as the leading factor, cited in 49 crashes. Hit-and-run incidents occur at this location at a rate of 11.4 percent—51 of 448 vehicles involved in crashes here left the scene.

Vehicle data from state crash records reflects typical national patterns, with Chevrolet as the most frequently involved make and United States-built vehicles accounting for the vast majority of crashes recorded.

Authorities cleared the scene and traffic returned to normal flow. No additional incident details were available at the time of reporting.