DONA ANA County, New Mexico – New Mexico Department of Transportation reports the closure of NM 11 between Deming and Columbus due to the high winds. Luna County Sheriff’s deputies are monitoring the closure. This is a breaking news story. Download the KVIA news app to get alerts the moment news breaks.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las cruces police are asking drivers to avoid Rinconada Boulevard and Northrise Drive as they investigate a crash. The crash occurred just before 1 p.m. Thursday. This is a breaking news story. Download the KVIA news app to get alerts the moment news breaks.
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UPDATE: (03/17): According to documents obtained by ABC-7, Michael Allen Ransdell said he had his hazard lights on prior to the crash because his brakes failed. Ransdell told an officer another vehicle approached his causing him to veer right over a curb. Ransdell said that caused him to lose control and collide with another vehicle’s
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EL PASO, Texas – A single-vehicle accident down traffic on Loop 375 and Resler for several hours. One person has been transported to the hospital. Lanes reopened just before 4 p.m. This is a breaking news story. Download the KVIA news app to get alerts the moment news breaks.
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EL PASO, Texas – A crash is blocking two lanes of traffic on I-10 east at Eastlake. The severity is listed as high on the TxDot traffic system. This is a breaking news story. Download the KVIA news app to get alerts the moment news breaks.
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EL PASO, Texas – Starting Wednesday, March 9, drivers will be able to travel on the two new eastbound lanes of the Montana project. This is the latest milestone of the project. It will give drivers the opportunity to travel on the new main lanes for approximately three miles. Drivers can get on the new
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A car fire brought traffic to a standstill Friday morning. It happened just after 8 a.m. on Loop 375 at Santa Fe near downtown. The car caught on fire on the portion of the highway just below the international bridge. Loop 375 was briefly closed in both directions but has
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EL PASO, Texas – The freeway is closed at I-10 west near the Horizon exit. According to the Texas Department of Transportation, traffic is exiting at Horizon due to a three-car incident underneath Horizon overpass. The Sheriff’s department reports it was a five-car accident with one woman and two children transported to the hospital with
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UPDATE: 2 p.m.: All lanes are clear according to TxDot. EL PASO, Texas – A crash between an RV and semi-truck shut down three lanes of I-10 west and Horizon Tuesday. The crash happened just after 11 a.m. According to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, the passenger of the RV was taken to the
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UPDATE, 3:55 p.m.: El Paso police say the collision at I-10 east and McRae has been cleared. Tractor-trailer remains at Americas South and Socorro. EL PASO, Texas – A tractor-trailer rolled over at Americas South at Socorro road. ABC-7 has a crew on the way to the scene. El Paso police say all lanes are
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EL PASO, Texas – A crash on I-10 east at Raynolds has caused the three right lanes to be shut down. Exit 23 is closed. According to the El Paso police traffic Twitter account, there is no estimate of the clearing time. The crash was reported around 11 a.m. Wednesday.
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Police are reporting a collision on I-10 West at Artcraft. According to their Twitter feed, the left lane is closed. Police say traffic is backed up to Helen of Troy. Clearing time is expected to last two hours. The tweet was sent out around 10:15 a.m. Monday morning. This
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UPDATE: El Paso police say a man hospitalized after a Lower Valley crash Wednesday has died. Police say the victim was 22-year-old Patrick Isaac Aguilar. Investigators say Aguilar was driving south on Zaragoza when he clipped the rear of another car that was making a left turn. Police say Aguilar lost control of his car,
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EL PASO, Texas – A car caught fire on Loop 375 Monday afternoon near the Paisano and Coles exit in south-central El Paso. An ABC-7 photographer arrived at the scene as several people exited the car. After some thick smoke blew away – flames could be seen engulfing he front part of the car. It’s
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ANTHONY, Texas — Three separate car crashes on both sides of I-10 near the state line are causing bumper-to-bumper traffic delays. The first crash happened on the New Mexico side involving a tipped over semi-truck on the westbound lanes of I-10 near Berino drive. New Meixco State Police are investigating the crash and they said
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UPDATE, Jan. 2: EL PASO, Texas– The mother of a 23-year-old woman struck and killed less than two hours into the new year said the driver who struck her daughter left the scene. “You don’t bury your babies, you bury your parents, you siblings, but not your babies,” said Lola Cuellar. “She was only 23
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UPDATE, Jan. 1: FORT HANCOCK, Texas — State troopers on Saturday said an 18-wheeler traveling at an unsafe speed along a rainy Interstate 10 in Hudspeth County was responsible for triggering a crash with a recreational vehicle that killed an El Paso man and left 10 others hospitalized. The semi-truck driver lost control on the
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EL PASO, Texas — A 21-year-old woman was struck by a car and seriously injured in the Lower Valley Thursday night by a hit-and-run driver, El Paso police said. It happened just after 8 p.m. at Betel Drive and Kernal Circle, where traffic investigators were summoned. Police blocked off the area with yellow crime scene
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UPDATE, Dec. 30: El Paso police on Thursday said they had arrested the car driver involved in a deadly hit-and-run crash with a motorcyclist on Christmas Day in east El Paso along George Dieter at Rex Baxter. 64-year-old Carmen Ofelia De Los Santos of El Paso was jailed on a charge of accident involving death.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Four flights departing from the El Paso International Airport were canceled early Thursday morning. It came as airline companies nationwide are dealing with massive numbers of travelers, and staffing shortages due to Covid cases among employees. The canceled flights in El Paso were: United Airlines (6139) to Houston at 5:45
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EL PASO, Texas — An east El Paso home, located at the corner of the intersection of Saul Kleinfeld and Bell Tower drives, was struck by a car this week, bringing down a big chunk of backyard wall. According to homeowner Saul Chavez, this was the second time in a year that this has happened.
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UPDATE, Dec. 29: A daughter accused of stabbing her mother on Christmas Eve and then leading police on a chase along Interstate 10 in an SUV she stole from mom has been ordered held in the El Paso County jail on $285,000 bond. Judge Jon Joseph set the bond amount for 35-year-old Crystal Lynn Guillen
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UPDATE #2: As of 1:30 p.m., El Paso police indicated that Gateway East has reopened to traffic. UPDATE: As of 12:15 p.m., El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies said I-10 had reopened, but Gateway East would remain closed for two more hours. ORIGINAL REPORT: EL PASO, Texas — A deadly rollover crash along Gateway East near
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UPDATE, Dec. 27: A motorcyclist seriously hurt in a crash a month ago has now died of his injuries, El Paso police announced Monday. 25-year-old Marco Antonio Marin of the Lower Valley had been hospitalized at University Medical Center following his collision with a pickup truck on Nov. 22 at Hawkins and Tony Lama. Police
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EL PASO, Texas — A pair of Christmas Eve traffic crashes in El Paso left one person dead and two others seriously injured. A single-vehicle rollover at Gateway East and Burgundy on Friday night was responsible for the death of a Horizon City man, police confirmed. Investigators said the SUV veered off the road, struck
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UPDATE #2: El Paso detectives believe a Ford F150 collided with a car, sending the car over a concrete barrier and onto Loop 375. Detectives say the driver of the Ford 150 then drove off. An El Paso man inside the vehicle that was struck, a Ford Ranger, died at the scene of the crash.
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — A Louisiana woman was struck by a vehicle and killed along an Otero County highway over the weekend, New Mexico State Police confirmed on Monday. The victim was identified as 28-year-old Mary Woods of Saint Joseph, Louisiana. Her death occurred on U.S. Highway 70 around mile marker 208 west of Alamogordo
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EL PASO, Texas – As many as two crashes were reported near the Outlet Shoppes, snarling traffic for the evening commute. One crash is on I-10 east and Transmountain, the other at North Desert and Transmountain. There are no reports of injuries. There are early reports a semi-truck knocks out lights at the North Desert
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UPDATE: Police have identified the wrong-way driver involved in a head-on collision on Loop 375 Wednesday. Police say 70-year-old Rafael Aguilar was driving westbound against eastbound traffic. Police say Aguilar crashed into a FedEx semi-truck that injured two people. The driver of the semi-truck has been identified as 69-year-old Martin Triana from Horizon. The passenger
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EL PASO, Texas — A semi-truck rollover crash at N. Desert Blvd. and Vinton Road on Tuesday afternoon was expected to snarl traffic for hours. The overturned truck forced the closure of all lanes of the Vinton overpass westbound and eastbound. The Texas Dept. of Transportation just before 1 p.m. estimated it would take three
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