A woman was killed after hitting a downed tree in a Kingwood street on Friday night, according to Houston police.
The driver hit the fallen tree around 8:30 p.m. in the 4500 block of Kingwood Drive, a business and tree-lined thoroughfare near the HEB grocery store, according to officials.
An officer was flagged down to the crash and the motorist was rushed to Ben Taub General Hospital, where she died, police said. She was not identified.