Investigators said they spotted a stolen car and tried to turn the driver over, but he decided to speed off before losing control and crashing into a tree. The vehicle then caught fire, killing the driver.

Investigators aren't sure if wet road conditions or impairment caused the driver to crash.

Officials say the driver was the only person in the car and was found dead in the fiery, crashed-out vehicle.

Responding crews said they found the crashed out vehicle, covered in flames with the driver's body still inside.

Investigators say the driver was speeding when she crashed sideways into a tree on Memorial, splitting her car in half before it caught on fire.

Authorities say a driver was likely speeding and driving on the wrong side of the road, resulting in a 3-vehicle crash, and the impact from the initial crash caused their car and another to catch fire.

One person is in critical condition following a crash involving a Houston Police Department patrol unit in southwest Houston.

All northbound lanes of SH-146 at Fred Hartman Bridge have reopened after being temporarily shut down due to a fiery crash Monday morning.

At least five people were killed and eight injured in a crash involving multiple vehicles in the metro area Thursday, authorities said.

A deputy constable with Precinct 8 and two other people were injured in a fiery crash in Pasadena Tuesday, officers with the Pasadena Police Department said.

A search for a driver and passenger is underway after police said they led officers on a chase that ended in a fiery crash in north Houston Thursday.

Authorities said the Highway 105 overpass between Cleveland and Cut and Shoot is closed and will be most of Friday morning after a fiery crash involving an 18-wheeler.

Houston police are investigating a fiery crash they said left four men dead near IAH Airport in northeast Houston Friday.

An innocent mother of six was killed in a horrific crash, and now her family is praying for justice.

Officials are working to put out an 18-wheeler fire on IH-610 East Loop near Market Street Monday.

Police are investigating after a deadly crash involving an 18-wheeler in southwest Houston Sunday, officers said. Investigators said the crash was caused by a wrong-way driver and two people are dead.

Fort Bend County sheriff’s deputies said they are investigating a violent, fiery crash that killed two people and a toddler in Richmond Friday.

Officers said the driver may have been street racing before the deadly crash. The driver of the Challenger or Charger took off when the BMW hit the tree and caught on fire, police said. According to investigators, the BMW split in half on the tree. Witnesses told officers they saw the same BMW run a light while on Hillcroft before the fatal crash. Officers are still looking for the other driver that was racing during the incident.

HOUSTON – Family members of the victims were in the courtroom Tuesday, including the husband and father of the woman killed. Family members of victims Porsha Branch, 28, and her three children, ages seven months, 5, and 2, were visibly upset when authorities brought the suspect into the courtroom. Daniel Canada, 35, faces four counts of intoxication manslaughter and one count of intoxication assault. According to Harris County officials, Canada was drunk with a blood-alcohol level of at least .15 when he slammed into another car, killing a mother and her three children. The fiery crash resulted in a seven-car pileup on Sunday night.

HOUSTON A magistrate judge reviewed a case Monday morning involving a mother accused of driving while intoxicated and causing a fiery crash that severely burned her son. Court officials said the six-year-old will likely die and the mother was given a $75,000 bond. Authorities said early Saturday morning 28-year-old Erika Long was caused a single-vehicle crash along the Grand Parkway in Spring. The six-year-old boy taken to UTMB via Life Flight while his mother was taken to a local hospital in stable condition. Teare said Long has been charged twice before in connection to her six-year-old son.

HOUSTON – Houston police are investigating a deadly, fiery crash that shut down parts of the Beltway 8 Wednesday morning. Police said they were called to an earlier crash around 2:45 a.m. on Beltway 8 and John F. Kennedy in north Houston. According to officers, they were clearing the accident when the driver of an SUV crashed into one of the wreckers. “We don’t see any roadway evidence that he (the driver) applied his brakes at all.”After the crash, the SUV caught on fire, killing the trapped driver of the SUV. Investigators are trying to determine if alcohol was a factor in the crash.