EL PASO, Texas — A motorist was seriously injured Monday night in a car crash and fire in the Lower Valley. It occurred at Trowbridge and Clark Drives, which was wet and had ponding water due to rain – although it was unknown whether the road conditions were a factor in the collision. It appeared
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EL PASO, Texas — A pedestrian was struck by a car and seriously injured Monday night in the Lower Valley. It happened at Alameda Avenue and Snelson Drive. First-responders said the victim was rushed to a local hospital in serious condition. The circumstances of the pedestrian being hit were under investigation by police, who cordoned
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EL PASO, Texas — A three-car crash Saturday evening injured several people and led to the shut down of a busy northeast El Paso intersection. Traffic investigators were called out about 8:30 p.m. to the crash scene at Gateway South Boulevard and McCombs Street. First-responders said three people were taken to local hospitals, with two
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EL PASO, Texas — A 50-year-old El Paso man was killed Friday in a Culberson County traffic crash.State troopers said the deadly crash it happened on Farm to Market Road 652 around milepost 138 at 5:30 a.m.Investigators said Ramiro Monteiro Sousa was speeding in his pickup truck when he lost control on a curve and
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EL PASO, Texas — A rollover crash along Interstate 10 near Viscount snarled traffic Friday afternoon and injured a motorist. Three eastbound lanes were closed due to the 2 p.m. wreck involving three cars, with one of the vehicles overturning. One person was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries. Police asked drivers to
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OTERO COUNTY, New Mexico – A 15-year-old boy from Carrizozo was killed when he lost control of the Mercedes he was driving and crashed head-on into a truck along U.S. 54, New Mexico State Police said. The deadly crash happened Wednesday about 11:30 a.m. near milepost 99 north of Tularosa. Investigators said they don’t yet
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EL PASO, Texas — As parents begin a new school year after Covid-19 kept students home, frustrations begin to mount at drop-off and pick-up locations. Viewers have been messaging ABC-7 about how the traffic backs up, drivers are double- and triple-parked and at one campus – a fist fight even broke out. In a recent
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VINTON, Texas — A motorcyclist was seriously injured after his bike collided with a truck along a stretch of Doniphan Drive in Vinton late Wednesday afternoon, forcing the closure of the roadway. The incident happened on Doniphan between Brooks and Chicken Farm roads, near the area where a train and truck collision the day before
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UPDATE, Aug. 4: The man charged in a deadly head-on car collision in far east El Paso told investigators he had been drinking at home and at a quinceneara prior to the crash, according to court documents obtained by ABC-7. Authorities allege Mario Ernesto Martel was driving eastbound along the westbound lanes of Interstate 10
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VINTON, Texas — A BNSF Railway freight train struck a semi-truck in Vinton on Tuesday afternoon, damaging the cab of the big-rig and turning it on its side. El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies said the truck driver suffered minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital for treatment; BNSF said the train’s conductor and
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EL PASO, Texas –A motorist was hurt in a two-vehicle rollover crash that happened along an area of Interstate 10 in east El Paso late Tuesday morning. The crash occurred just before 11 a.m. along I-10 westbound shortly before the Reynolds Street exit, at mile-marker 22, and involved a pickup truck and a car that
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – A 58-year-old man was identified by sheriff’s deputies Tuesday as the driver killed in a far east El Paso rollover car crash earlier this week. Obdulio Huiton died at the scene of Sunday morning’s crash in the 16200 block of Montana Avenue. Investigators didn’t indicate what caused Huiton’s car to flip
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — What was supposed to be a celebration ended in tragedy in Juarez as an SUV driver struck 11 people, killing two of them at a quinceanera party rehearsal. ABC-7’s news partners at Canal 44 report that a man lost control of his vehicle, veered off the road and ran over those
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EL PASO, Texas — A traffic collision forced the closure of a portion of Interstate 10 in west El Paso early Monday. The crash was reported by police a bit after midnight along I-10 west at Redd Road. There was no word on what caused the crash, but dispatchers indicated one person was transported to
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EL PASO, Texas — Two vehicles collided at an intersection near downtown El Paso on Friday afternoon, triggering a rollover that injured a motorist. That crash happened just before 12:30 p.m. at Yandell Drive and Santa Fe Street in the city’s Sunset Heights area. Witnesses to the collision told ABC-7 that one of the cars
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EL PASO, Texas — Two people were injured after a northeast El Paso car crash early Friday that resulted in two vehicles overturned. It happened at 11400 Gateway South and McCombs. First-responders took two collision victims to local hospitals with non-life threatening injuries. Investigators didn’t indicate what led up to the crash; no further details
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UPDATE, July 29: Police on Thursday released the identity of the 70-year-old man struck by a car and killed earlier in the week along the 1300 block of N. Lee Trevino on El Paso’s east side. The victim was identified as Lorenzo Castano of San Antonio, Texas. Police didn’t indicate if they knew why Castano
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UPDATE, July 29: El Paso police on Thursday identified the man struck and killed by a train earlier this week near the Union Pacific Railroad Yard. The victim was 42-year-old Alejandro Dimas of Amarillo, Texas. Police, however, didn’t provide any further details surrounding his death – or indicate why the Amarillo man was in the
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EL PASO, Texas — A project designed to upgrade a section of Interstate 10 in downtown is creating a debate in El Paso County Commissioner’s Court even though no plans are finalized. This week’s commissioners court meeting opened the floor for the public to voice their opinion about the proposed project which could expand I-10
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EL PASO, Texas — After the Texas Department of Transportation rerouted traffic through the Durazno area, residents living west of the Spaghetti Bowl contacted ABC-7 alleging that the extra volume of motorists has resulted in damage to their property and vehicles. The traffic problems in the neighborhood began when TxDOT began detouring drivers off Gateway
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UPDATE, July 28: Police on Wednesday indicated two El Pasoans were killed and a third injured in a two-car crash in northeast El Paso the day prior. The deceased were a husband and wife couple identified as 65-year-old Dennis Edmund Marenius and 66-year-old Anita Ellen Marenius; she died at the scene, while he died after
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KERMIT, Texas — A Horizon City man was one of two semi-truck drivers killed in a fiery weekend crash when their 18-wheelers collided on a west Texas highway, state troopers said Monday. Investigators identified 68-year-old Gilberto Uresti of Horizon City and 58-year-old Jose Alonso-Montelongo of Del Rio as the deceased truckers in Saturday’s crash along
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UPDATE, July 26: A 72-year-old Canutillo woman has died weeks after a crash involving her SUV and a semi-truck along Interstate 10 at Transmountain. El Paso police on Monday said Reyna Ley-Montes had died after being hospitalized since the July 5 wreck with severe head injuries. A 7-year-old child riding in her SUV during the
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UPDATE, July 25: Police on Sunday identified the man killed in a weekend traffic collision as 65-year-old Perfecto Aispuro Beltran of El Paso. Investigators said Beltran’s car was struck by a speeding pickup truck as he was turning at the intersection of 3600 E. Yandell and 700 Copia in central El Paso about 2:30 p.m.
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EL PASO, Texas — One person was hospitalized after an apparent case of road rage led to a traffic crash followed by a fight and report of gunshots fired, according to accounts from authorities and eyewitnesses. The melee happened around 1 p.m. Sunday in front of 2655 N. Yarbrough Drive in east El Paso. Witnesses
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SUNLAND PARK, Mexico — Sunland Park said they were conducting a drunk driving checkpoint on Friday night until 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning. While officials didn’t specify a location for the checkpoint, there was major police activity along Country Club Road in Sunland Park near the New Mexico and Texas border. “The purpose of the DWI
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EL PASO, Texas — A two-car crash led to the shutdown of a stretch of Interstate 10 through west El Paso on Thursday afternoon. That crash happened about 4:15 p.m. along I-10 eastbound at Redd Road. Authorities said there were no injuries reported, but that section of highway was closed until about 6:15 p.m. due
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DEMING, New Mexico — A truck driver was killed in a four-vehicle crash that shut down a stretch of Interstate 10 westbound for over 17 hours Wednesday in Luna County between Deming and Las Cruces, according to New Mexico State Police. The deadly wreck, involving three semi-trucks and an SUV, happened about 11 p.m. Tuesday
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UPDATE, July 21: The U.S. Army on Wednesday released the identities of two Fort Bliss soldiers assigned to 1st Armored Division who were killed in a fiery weekend traffic crash along Loop 375 at Spur 601. The pair who died in the fiery crash were Sgt. 1st Class Keith Rambo, 32, a Michigan native, and
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EL PASO, Texas — A motorcyclist was critically hurt in a head-on crash involving a motorcycle and a car in east El Paso late Tuesday afternoon. It happened about 4:30 p.m. at Medwood Drive and Yarbrough Drive. First-responders said the motorcyclist was rushed to the hospital with very serious injuries. Traffic investigators remained at the
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