HPD officer injured after police vehicle hit on 610 Loop; pickup driver killed – Click2Houston

HPD officer injured after police vehicle hit on 610 Loop; pickup driver killed  Click2Houston

Houston police officer was hospitalized after an HPD vehicle was struck while officers were responding to a traffic hazard on the 610 Loop early Thursday morning. According to police, officers were responding to a report of a semi-truck that had leaked some of its payload onto the roadway. Officers were blocking traffic on the freeway while crews dealt with the hazard when a speeding pickup truck slammed into an HPD vehicle.

One officer was transported to a hospital and is expected to be stable. The pickup truck driver, described as a Hispanic woman in her 20s to 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene. It is not immediately known whether intoxication played a role in the crash.