Five people — two adult men, one adult woman and two children — were taken to area hospitals after a suspected impaired driver crossed into oncoming traffic overnight and collided head-on with a vehicle carrying a family of four in the 2400 block of FM 1960 Road East in Humble, in Harris County, according to preliminary information from Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.

Source: Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez via Dunk Law Firm report

In an update posted on X at 11:59 a.m. Central on Sunday, November 15, 2026, Sheriff Gonzalez said a 6-year-old girl among the injured was initially intubated and listed in critical condition, and her condition has since improved to serious but fair. The sheriff said the suspected impaired driver remains hospitalised. No names were released in the sources reviewed, and Awaaz Punjab does not name child victims — the children are described here only by age group and city, as officials reported them.

Source: Dunk Law Firm report of Sheriff Gonzalez update

The Harris County Sheriff's Office is leading the investigation, with assistance from the Humble Police Department, the sheriff said. An exact crash time was not given in the sheriff's update; the collision happened overnight, before the Sunday late-morning update.

The district attorney briefing: surgery, and expected charges

Andrew Figliuzzi, an investigator with the Harris County District Attorney's Office Vehicular Crimes Division, told Houston Stringer that some occupants of the vehicle that was struck were undergoing surgery for potentially life-threatening injuries, and that no deaths had been reported at the time of his briefing.

Source: Houston Stringer

Figliuzzi also said there was probable cause to believe the driver who caused the crash was intoxicated, and that the driver is expected to face multiple counts of intoxication assault and could also face an aggravated assault charge. Those are expected charges described by an investigator — not charges confirmed as filed, and not a conviction. In Texas, intoxication assault is the felony offence applied when a driver suspected of impairment causes serious bodily injury to another person.

The gunfire reports — what officials have and have not confirmed

Houston Stringer reported that a passerby was detained after reportedly firing a rifle at vehicles following the crash, and that investigators are working to determine why the person fired and whether they had any connection to the crash.

Source: Houston Stringer

Sheriff Gonzalez, in the update reported by Dunk Law Firm, said initial reports suggested gunshots may have been fired, but investigators had not confirmed those reports and none of the injured had apparent gunshot wounds. Readers should hold both points together: a passerby was reported detained over rifle fire after the crash, and the sheriff's office has not confirmed that shots were fired or that any injury came from gunfire.

Background: FM 1960, a main artery for north Harris County

FM 1960 — Farm to Market Road 1960 — is one of the main east-west arteries across north Harris County, carrying commuter, school and commercial traffic through Humble, Atascocita and the communities north of Houston, and connecting drivers to Interstate 69 and George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Overnight head-on collisions on such divided and undivided stretches are investigated by the sheriff's vehicular crimes specialists together with the district attorney's team, exactly the two offices heard from on Sunday.

For Punjabi diaspora readers in the Houston area — including truck drivers who use FM 1960 and I-69 for warehouse and airport-corridor work — the confirmed picture on Sunday was narrow but serious: a family vehicle struck head-on overnight, children among the seriously injured, a hospitalised driver suspected of impairment, and an investigation still open. No road closure order for FM 1960 was included in the sources reviewed.

What happens next

Investigators still have to establish the exact time and sequence of the crossing into oncoming traffic, complete the impairment investigation, and decide the filing of the expected intoxication assault counts described by the district attorney's investigator. The conditions of the other injured people, including the second child, had not been detailed in the sources reviewed. Awaaz Punjab will update only on a confirmed filing, a sheriff's office update on conditions, or another official finding.