EL PASO, Texas — A Sarah Farms truck carrying gallons of milk crashed and rolled over along a portion of Interstate 10 in west El Paso on Monday night. It happened along I-10 westbound at Artcraft. While milk spilled, authorities indicated there was no word of any serious injuries stemming from the crash. What caused
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EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy and another person were both injured Saturday when their vehicles collided at an intersection. Authorities said the deputy’s patrol unit was struck by a pickup truck that failed to yield while making a turn at Ashford and Emerald Ranch around 12:50 p.m. The deputy and a
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EL PASO, Texas — Changes to traffic patterns near the Bridge of the Americas began Thursday as the Texas Dept. of Transportation announced the opening of new portions of the Interstate 10 Connect Project. As part of this project, reconstruction to the Paisano Drive interchange has been completed, which means drivers traveling southbound from Paisano to the
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EL PASO, Texas — A car struck a home in a central El Paso neighborhood Thursday afternoon, leaving one person injured. The sedan hit the house in the 3100 block of Douglas about 2:45 p.m. Authorities said one person was taken by ambulance to a local hospital with relatively minor injuries. Yellow tape blocked off
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police were investigating after a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and killed early Thursday morning on the Interstate 10 East at Trowbridge on-ramp. The department’s Special Traffic Investigations Unit was called out just after midnight. Police said the pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene in central
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EL PASO, Texas — The family of an El Paso man killed by an alleged drunk driver is suing for $1 million. Relatives of 67-year-old Guadalupe Ruben Ramos gathered with their attorneys and representatives of ‘Mothers Against Drunk Driving’ at the El Paso County Courthouse Tuesday to talk about the lawsuit. In a press conference, the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A man on a moped was hospitalized after being involved in a collision Monday morning with a Dona Ana County Sheriff’s deputy’s car. The crash happened about 5:30 a.m. at West Picacho Avenue and Motel Boulevard. Sheriff Kim Stewart told ABC-7 that the deputy was on his way to work
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UPDATE: Investigators on Sunday afternoon blamed speeding as the cause of a single-car crash earlier in the day that claimed the life of an El Paso man and left a Socorro woman hospitalized in serious condition. After initially saying the Sunday morning crash occurred on Gateway Boulevard West, police later said it was actually the
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DEMING, New Mexico — A portion of Interstate 10 in the Deming area was shut down Friday night due to a fire. State transportation officials said all lanes of I-10 eastbound were closed at milepost 102 (Akela) as of 7:45 p.m. The need for the closure was triggered by a vehicle fire at milepost 107.
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VAN HORN, Texas — Multiple fatalities and severe injuries were reported after an SUV carrying 15 undocumented migrants overturned along a highway in Culberson County about 5:30 a.m. on Friday. Texas state troopers, Culberson County Sheriff’s deputies and Customs and Border Protection agents all responded to the rollover crash scene along State Highway 54, about
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UPDATE: A woman was driving drunk when she crashed her car into an east El Paso home earlier in the day, police said Thursday afternoon in announcing the filing of charges in the incident. Investigators said Ashley Rae Turley, 27, of El Paso, had a blood alcohol level of more than two times the legal
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EL PASO, Texas — A hotline for people to call for roadside assistance will continue to operate in El Paso with an infusion of additional funding. HERO, a Texas Department of Transportation program that helps stranded drivers, was approved to operate for another year by the El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization. “We already had secured
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EL PASO, Texas — An 80-year-old woman was seriously injured after being struck by a car in the Lower Valley Tuesday afternoon. It happened at the intersection of Independence Drive and Padres Drive around noon. First-responders said the victim was rushed by ambulance to a local hospital in serious condition. No further details were immediately
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FABENS, Texas – A car carrying a group of teens crashed and overturned early Sunday morning in Fabens, ejecting four of them and killing a 16-year-old girl. El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies said the deadly rollover crash happened about 1:15 a.m. in the 1200 block of S. Fabens Carlsbad Road. The 16-year-old suffered severe injuries in
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UPDATE: Police said a man seriously injured after crashing his pickup truck into a cement barrier early Saturday died later in the morning at a local hospital. The deceased was identified by authorities as 27-year-old Juan Casas Sandoval of El Paso. Investigators said they believe Sandoval was drunk at the time, as other drivers said
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EL PASO, Texas — Seeing your teen get behind the wheel can be nerve-racking, especially if they’re picking up the phone while driving. But there’s an app out there that can help and give them something in return. The app, Teens in the Drivers Seat, was developed last year by Texas A&M Transportation Institute which
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EL PASO, Texas — Authorities were investigating an incident in which a pedestrian was struck by a semi-truck and seriously injured along Interstate 10 in west El Paso. El Paso police said it happened around 11 p.m. Wednesday on I-10 eastbound at mile-marker 7 near Transmountain. The pedestrian, identified as 44-year Fernando Garza of Odessa,
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HORIZON CITY, Texas — El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies said a 32-year-old Horizon City man was killed Tuesday morning in a motorcycle crash. Eric Estevez died when his off-road motorcycle ran into a rock wall in the 1200 block of Zapata in Horizon City. Investigators hadn’t determined what caused Estevez to lose control of the
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UPDATE: All eastbound lanes reopened as of 3:30 p.m., according to police. ORIGINAL REPORT: EL PASO, Texas — All eastbound lanes of Transmountain Road were closed during the noon hour Tuesday due to a traffic collision. El Paso police said the crash occurred along Transmountain East at mile-marker 16 and indicated that stretch of road
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso police officer was hurt in an on-duty motorcycle crash Monday afternoon. It happened about 12:10 p.m. on Railroad near Morning Glory in northeast El Paso, officials said. What caused the officer to crash his motorcycle unit wasn’t immediately known; the EPPD motorcycle was the only vehicle involved in
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UPDATE #2: Police on Thursday afternoon released the identity of the car driver killed the prior night in a collision with a semi-truck at the intersection of U.S. 54 and Stateline Road. Authorities said the deceased victim was 66-year-old Teresa Briseno, a northeast El Paso resident. UPDATE: El Paso police confirmed early Thursday that the
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UPDATE: A 79-year-old man from Ciudad Juarez was killed after being run over by a Sun Metro bus near downtown El Paso Wednesday in what police are now calling a suicide. Authorities said the Mexican man was lying underneath the bus around 6 a.m. when it moved and crushed his torso; the driver apparently had
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EL PASO, Texas — In just a few weeks, the Texas Dept. of Transportation will start making improvements on the crosswalks at the busy intersections of Cincinnati and Baltimore along Mesa Street in west El Paso. These improvements are timely after a pedestrian was hit in a crosswalk by an alleged drunk driver on the
Continue Reading HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas (KVIA) — The Texas Department of Public Safety was investigating after a semi-trailer carrying hazardous materisal crashed and overturned at milepost 51 on U.S. Highway 62/180 early Wednesday morning. A DPS spokesman said both directions of the highway were closed at Guadalupe Mountain Pass. Traffic was being diverted westbound at FM 1111.
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso Disposal garbage truck overturned Monday afternoon and was hanging on a guardrail barrier above Interstate 10 in west El Paso. First-responders indicated it appeared an axle broke on the truck about 2 p.m. on Executive Center Boulevard at I-10. Police shut down Executive Center and the highway because
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UPDATE #2, Oct. 4: El Paso police on Monday released the name of a motorist killed when his car crashed beneath an I-10 overpass during the weekend. Authorities identified the victim as Jerry Mendoza, 60, of west El Paso; they said the cause of the deadly crash remained under investigation. UPDATE #1, Oct. 3: Police
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EL PASO, Texas — An east El Paso man was charged with drunk driving Sunday after his pickup truck struck and injured a pedestrian crossing the street in the Cincinnati entertainment district at bar closing time, police said. It happened just after 2 a.m. at the intersection of Cincinnati and Mesa streets on the city’s
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said one of its deputies was hospitalized after being involved in a crash with an 18-wheeler near Tornillo early Thursday morning. A spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office said it was a head-on crash on Interstate 10. The deputy suffered non-life threatening injuries. One other
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EL PASO, Texas — The Texas Department of Transportation is implementing new robust technology to prevent wrong-way driver crashes. The technology will be implemented at the UTEP exit of the Borderland West Expressway and run to San Marcial Street near Bowie High School. The system is designed to detect a vehicle going the wrong way,
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EL PASO, Texas — A car went crashing into the Sunflower Bank building in downtown El Paso. According to officials, it happened just after 8 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Main and Mesa streets, where the bank is located. There were no injuries that required hospitalization, but there was damage to the front of
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