2 killed in head-on crash involving rideshare driver on Highway 249, sheriff says

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Two people were killed in a head-on crash Thursday morning on Highway 249 in northwest Harris County, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.

According to preliminary information from the sheriff and posted to X, formerly Twitter, at about 8:02 a.m., two vehicles were involved in the crash at 11500 Highway 249 and Breen.

The sheriff initially said that a child received CPR, but he corrected that to say that no children were involved. It was an adult who received the aid from a good Samaritan.

A man driving one vehicle and a woman in the passenger seat both died at the scene.

A rideshare driver with a passenger was in the second vehicle. Both of them were taken to the hospital in serious condition, but they are expected to survive.

“Speed is likely a contributing factor,” Gonzalez wrote in his post, though he added that investigators will also look into whether impairment was a factor considering how violent the crash was to be have happened so early in the morning.

In an update at the scene, Gonzalez said that both cars were positioned in the middle turn lane, but authorities were still investigating how the crash happened.

The crash shut down Highway 249 in both directions for most of the morning, but the road was expected to reopen around 11:30 a.m.

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