Car and tractor-trailer collide on I-10, one killed

El Paso sheriff’s deputies are working a fatal rollover on eastbound Interstate 10 between the Eastlake on-ramp and the Horizon exit. The interstate was closed between both ramps due to the crash and traffic was being diverted to the access roads.

According to EPSO’s public information officer, Chris Acosta, a Honda passenger car was heading east when it collided with an 18-wheeler that was also eastbound a little after 10 p.m. Saturday. The impact overturned the tractor-trailer and destroyed the Honda. Both the driver and passenger in the Honda escaped with no injuries. The truck driver of the was taken to a local hospital where he died of his injuries, his passenger was also taken to the hospital where he is being treated for non life threatening injuries.

Special traffic investigators are trying to determine who caused the accident and have not identified the victims.

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