A vehicle accident brought major delays to northbound Fort Bend Parkway near State Highway 6 around 12:29 PM on Thursday, September 10. Responding officers worked to clear the scene and restore traffic flow.
This crash landed during the corridor's single busiest hour for accidents. According to LTA data, northbound Fort Bend Parkway at SH 6 has logged 17 incidents over the past 30 days—13 of them major. The location is unusual for a residential road: while most crash corridors skew toward weekday commutes, this one sees crashes cluster toward the weekend, with Sundays recording the highest incident count at five crashes over a 90-day span.
Zooming out further, the corridor has recorded 28 total incidents in the past 90 days and 34 in the past 12 months, per LTA's real-time incident database. Over the same 12-month window, state crash records from the Texas Department of Transportation show 26 crashes within about a quarter-mile of this location. Contributing factors as recorded by the investigating officer, per TxDOT CRIS, show "Failed To Control Speed" as the leading factor, cited in 9 crashes.
Fort Bend County as a whole has recorded 1,114 incidents over the past 30 days with no fatalities reported.
Details on lane closures, injury status, and clearance time were not immediately available. Check back for updates as the incident resolves.
Update (8:30 PM CT): The major crash at Fort Bend Parkway Northbound at Sh 6, Moc, TX, first reported at 12:29 PM, has cleared after more than 8 hours. All lanes have reopened and normal traffic flow has resumed in the area.
Sources: TxDOT Crash Records Information System and Local Traffic Accidents database. Counts through September 12, 2026.
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