The city of Houston is weighing approval of a $13 million project to overhaul Telephone Road, addressing long-standing safety and infrastructure concerns that have made the corridor one of the city’s most dangerous stretches for drivers and pedestrians alike.

Recent deaths at or near Telephone Road are prompting questions about pedestrian and traffic safety. KPRC 2 is looking into conditions along the corridor and has asked TxDOT what it is doing to improve safety.

A 71-year-old man in a wheelchair was fatally struck by vehicle while using a marked crosswalk on Telephone Road in Houston Friday night, police said.

A woman in her 20s was killed early Saturday after her car ran two red lights at high speed and collided with another vehicle at Telephone Road and Reveille Street in Houston, police say.

A few high-water locations are being reported on some Houston area roads due to heavy storms moving across southeast Texas.

HPD confirmed the southbound lanes have been shut down at Spur 5 and are expected to remain closed while officers conduct their investigation.

Houston Police are seeking public assistance to identify two male suspects involved in an aggravated robbery at a donut shop on 6100 Telephone Road, which occurred on March 29.

A nightclub doorman is dead, and another man is recovering after a shooting overnight in southeast Houston.

Houston Police said it happened around 7 p.m. in the 7400 block of Southway Drive. The address is just off Telephone Road in the Golfcrest/Bellfort area of Houston.

A 32-year-old woman was injured by a stray bullet from celebratory gunfire shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day in Houston.

Firefighters are currently at the scene of a building which has caught fire in southeast Houston.

Hazmat crews are working a scene where they said an 18-wheeler has crashed and began leaking fuel on the Gulf Freeway.

Houston Police said a man who died after being shot in southeast Houston Saturday was driven to Hobby Airport by his spouse who picked him up after he called her in distress.

A crash has shutdown the westbound lanes of IH-610 at Telephone Road.

A woman was found stabbed to death in a parking lot in southeast Houston Tuesday, the Houston Police Department said.

An investigation is underway after a man was fatally struck by a vehicle in southeast Houston Wednesday, officers with the Houston Police Department said.

A major crash on the Gulf Freeway at Telephone Road is the cause of major traffic delays Monday morning, according to authorities.

All northbound lanes on the Gulf Freeway at Telephone Road are blocked following a crash Tuesday afternoon, according to the Houston Police Department.

The 610 South Loop eastbound at Telephone Road is completely shut down Wednesday.

Houston police say all mainlanes at I-45 Gulf Freeway headed northbound toward downtown are shut down due to a two-vehicle crash.

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A man spotted driving the wrong way is now in custody after he led Pct. 6 deputies on a brief chase and then claimed to have had placed a bomb at Hobby Airport, Houston Police say.

One person was killed and three others were injured Sunday during a fight between neighbors, authorities said.

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