A major crash tied up inbound Eastex Freeway traffic around 4:03 PM on Monday, October 19. Responding officers worked the scene in Montgomery County as drivers navigated around the incident.
Eastex inbound has seen 13 crashes in the past 30 days, according to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data. The 4–5 PM window is the corridor's single busiest hour, with 8 crashes recorded in that span over the recent period, though collisions here occur throughout the day rather than clustering in one peak window.
Over the past year, the corridor logged 186 total incidents, 85 of them major. TxDOT CRIS public crash records show 543 crashes within about a quarter-mile of this location since January 2020, with "Failed To Control Speed" cited as the leading contributing factor in 189 of those crashes.
Weather was clear at the time of the incident. Conditions should improve as the site is cleared.
Sources: TxDOT Crash Records Information System and Local Traffic Accidents database. Counts through October 19, 2026.
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