Man Seriously Injured After Cement Truck Strike on FM 2920

A cement truck struck a man on FM 2920 in north Harris County on Tuesday, leaving him seriously injured and hospitalized. The Harris County Sheriff's Office, led by Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, is actively investigating the crash. HCSO Media Relations can be reached at 346-286-1580 or media@sheriff.hctx.net for case updates.

The collision occurred along one of the county's busiest and most hazardous arterials. FM 2920 stretches more than 30 miles from US 290 Business in Waller east to I-45 in Spring, passing through Tomball where traffic counts average approximately 23,000 vehicles per day. Significant portions of the corridor, particularly between Waller and Cypress Rosehill Road, remain a two-lane undivided roadway, a configuration that traffic safety experts flag as especially dangerous for large commercial vehicles sharing narrow lanes with pedestrians and passenger cars.

Tuesday's collision is the latest in a documented pattern of serious and fatal crashes on FM 2920. In January 2024, a woman was killed and several others were injured in a six-vehicle pileup in north Harris County. Six months later, a separate crash in July 2024 claimed another life on the same road. A pedestrian was also fatally struck near Calvert Road in Tomball. An earlier 18-wheeler crash on FM 2920 required both a Life Flight response and a Hazmat deployment, and a wreck near Kermier Road left a victim airlifted to an area hospital.

Cement and concrete mixer trucks have proven particularly dangerous across Harris County. A concrete mixer truck rollover at the Hardy Toll Road northbound FM 1960 exit ramp previously left a man hospitalized. On Beltway 8 at Bammel North Houston Road, a cement truck went off the side of an overpass onto the feeder road below, killing one person and critically injuring another in a crash that drew a response from Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman's office.

Safety analysis of Houston cement truck crashes points to a structural visibility problem: drivers of concrete mixer trucks have limited sightlines around the rear and right-hand side of their vehicles, making it significantly harder to detect pedestrians, cyclists, or smaller passenger cars in time to stop.

TxDOT has active widening projects along FM 2920 that could eventually reduce those risks. One proposes expanding the stretch from BU 290 to SH 249 from a two-lane undivided road to a four-lane divided roadway. A second project would widen approximately 11.1 miles from North Willow Street to I-45, a corridor TxDOT identifies as facing continued residential and commercial growth. Until that construction is complete, the two-lane stretches where heavy commercial trucks share narrow lanes with passenger vehicles remain a known and unresolved hazard.