A crash shut down the right shoulder of Beltway 8-North Eastbound at Hardy Toll at 7:09 AM on Thursday, October 29, 2026, according to Houston TranStar.
The shoulder remains blocked while crews work the scene. If you're headed eastbound through this stretch, consider using IH-10, US-290, or IH-45 to bypass the affected corridor.
This incident lands on one of the busiest days for this location. According to LTA data, Thursdays see the most crashes here — 16 in the past 90 days. Over the same period, Beltway 8-North Eastbound at Hardy Toll has logged 115 total incidents, with 75 classified as major. The 30-day count stands at 37 incidents, 22 of them major.
Historically, this corridor has been a persistent trouble spot. Per TxDOT CRIS public crash records since January 2020, the area around Hardy Toll has seen 1,360 crashes — four of them fatal. Contributing factors as recorded by investigating officers, per TxDOT CRIS, show "Failed To Control Speed" as the leading factor, cited in 321 crashes. The hit-and-run rate here runs 8.3 percent.
Stay alert as you navigate around this closure.
Sources: TxDOT Crash Records Information System and Local Traffic Accidents database. Counts through October 29, 2026.
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