A major crash brought traffic to a crawl on IH 610 westbound near Braeswood Boulevard at 5:34 PM on Tuesday, October 20. Responding officers worked to clear the wreckage from the roadway.
This stretch of inner-loop 610 has logged 13 incidents in the past 30 days, according to LocalTrafficAccidents.com data. Over the past 90 days, the corridor has seen 68 total incidents, with 20 classified as major. The LTA real-time database tracked 244 total incidents here in the past 12 months.
Weather at the time was overcast and mild — 79 degrees — with clear road conditions. The crash joins a pattern at this location: contributing factors as recorded by the investigating officer, per TxDOT CRIS, show "Failed To Control Speed" as the leading factor, cited in 176 crashes since January 2020. That span saw 779 total crashes within about a quarter-mile of this site, per state crash records from the Texas Department of Transportation.
Sources: TxDOT Crash Records Information System and Local Traffic Accidents database. Counts through October 20, 2026.
SIH610IB-BRAESWOOD BLVD N 4606 S IH 610 FWY W @ BLK W IH 610 FWY S
Harris County, Texas
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