EL PASO, Texas — Businesses along Mesa Street have had to deal with more than just a pandemic to keep their doors open this past year. They’ve also had to keep customers happy while road construction cuts off easy access to their parking lots. The Texas Department of Transportation has been repaving portions of Mesa
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A vehicle fire led to the closure of U.S. 70 in the Las Cruces area on Sunday evening for several hours, state transportation officials said. The fire resulted in the shutdown of both eastbound and westbound lanes of the highway at milepost 168. The fire and closure were reported by
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico — A single-car rollover crash Saturday in Santa Teresa claimed the life a motorist. Fire officials said it happened in the 100 block of Airport Road. Sunland Park and Dona Ana County firefighters tried to rescue the crash victim, who was trapped inside the wreckage, using the jaws of life to
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Interstate 10 through Las Cruces reopened about 7 p.m. Friday after being closed for a couple of hours due to a traffic crash. New Mexico State Police had shut down I-10 westbound at the University Avenue exit due to the crash – and traffic was detoured off the highway at
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A cow that wandered onto a Las Cruces highway triggered a traffic crash that left both the animal and vehicle driver injured, witnesses told ABC-7. The incident occurred Thursday night on Highway 70 and Mesa Grande, where the cow was struck by the vehicle after crossing the path of the
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EL PASO, Texas — Construction along Mesa Street is now slated for completion by the end of September following a meeting between El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser and state transportation officials over complaints about the project. Leeser said Thursday that his meeting with officials from the Texas Department of Transportation was prompted by a “multitude”
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EL PASO, Texas — Police were investigating a suicide Thursday afternoon that forced the closure of a highway ramp to traffic. The Interstate 10 eastbound exit ramp to Loop 375 and Gateway West was shut down by officers around 1 p.m. and reopened about two hours later at 3 p.m. No further details were immediately
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man who lost his leg after he was hit by car while sitting at a bus stop along an east side street last month faces a long road ahead for rehabilitation. Guillermo “Willie” Guzman, 64, was sitting at a bus stop near the 11100 block of Montwood Drive
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EL PASO, Texas — A rollover crash along Transmountain Road near Dyer sent four people to the hospital Wednesday night, El Paso fire officials said. Two of those injured in the crash were seriously hurt, while the other two victims had minor injuries. Other details of the crash were not immediately available.
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VAN HORN, Texas — An SUV that spun out of control along a rainy Interstate 10 in Culberson County over the holiday weekend triggered a three-vehicle fiery crash that claimed the lives of an Arizona truck driver and a central Texas woman, state troopers said Tuesday. The deadly wreck happened Sunday on I-10 eastbound about
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EL PASO, Texas — A drunk driver was clocked over the weekend speeding at over 130 miles an hour along Interstate 10, El Paso police said Monday. The arrest of 45-year-old Omar Murillo occurred early Saturday morning along I-10 west at Lee Trevino. Officials said he was snagged by EPPD’s Driving While Intoxicated task force,
Continue Reading UPDATE: El Paso police confirmed a passenger died and a driver was seriously injured when the car they were traveling in went into the median on Loop 375 early Sunday and overturned. The deceased crash victim was identified as 33-year old Gabriel Mars of El Paso. Police said Mars was ejected from the car during
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EL PASO, Texas — A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and killed early Sunday in central El Paso and police put out a public call seeking witnesses to the deadly incident. Traffic investigators were summoned about 3 a.m. to the scene at U.S. 54 and Montana Avenue, where authorities indicated a 24-year-old man had
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UPDATE, May 22: El Paso police said Saturday that a traffic fatality initially described as a pedestrian struck and killed was actually a deadly crash involving a car and a motorcycle, with the car driver believed to be under the influence of drugs at the time. It happened late Friday night in the 8100 block
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El PASO, Texas — Montecillo is an up and coming area on El Paso’s west side, but after last Sunday’s hit and run which left one person dead, many are now questioning the safety of the area. Montecillo Boulevard has no speed limit signs, crosswalks or speed bumps, and up until Wednesday residents told ABC-7
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A 22-year-old Alamogordo man, who was out on bond for a drunk driving arrest just two days prior, is accused of being intoxicated yet again when he ran a stop sign and crashed his car into ambulance that was responding with lights and siren to an emergency call on Thursday
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EL PASO, Texas — The family of a military veteran who was crushed to death by a car outside a south-central El Paso bar while reportedly trying to shield his wife from being run over is speaking out about what police are calling his “intentional” death. “You were my Batman,” says the sister of 33-year-old
Continue Reading GRANT COUNTY, New Mexico – An El Paso truck driver was killed in a traffic crash involving four tractor-trailer rigs along Interstate 10 between Deming and Lordsburg, New Mexico State Police said Thursday. The victim was identified by NMSP as 33-year-old Steven Carpenter. The deadly crash occurred Wednesday evening at a rest stop exit on
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UPDATE, May 17: El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies on Monday released the identity of a man struck and killed by a vehicle while waiting alongside Interstate 10 between Anthony and Vinton for authorities following a weekend crash. The deceased was 34-year-old Santiago Goytia. Deputies released no further information on the incident, saying their investigation remained
Continue Reading UPDATE, May 17: A motorist was being held Monday on $500,000 bond after a fatal pedestrian hit-and-run the prior night in west El Paso. Police said 25–year-old Alberto Escobar of El Paso was charged with accident involving death after he allegedly struck 29 –year-old Aristide John Freddi of Santa Teresa, New Mexico with his SUV.
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UPDATE, May 17: El Paso police on Monday said they had yet to identify a 25 to 30-year-old man who was among two pedestrians struck and killed by vehicles in separate weekend incidents. The unidentified man died after being hit by a pickup truck Saturday about 5:40 a.m. in the 1500 block of E. Paisano.
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UPDATE, May 10: Investigators said Monday that drunk driving was to blame for wrong-way car that crashed head-on into a Greyhound bus over the weekend along 1-10 east between Executive and Sunland Park. The intoxicated car driver, identified by police as 23–year old Alan Ray Harrawood of El Paso, was the lone fatality. His death
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A car crashed into a central El Paso home early Monday morning near the intersection of Yandell and Reynolds, with a man sleeping inside the home barely escaping injury. The car barreled through a rock wall and then smashed into the front of the house, before the driver managed to
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UPDATE, May 10: Investigators on Monday blamed “driver inattention” for a deadly crash last Friday where a pickup truck slammed into the rear of a semi-truck along westbound US 70 just outside the Las Cruces city limits. The Office of the Medical Investigator said the pickup driver, identified as 66-year-old Donald Haynie of Las Cruces,
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EL PASO, Texas — It has been three weeks since 46-year-old Ricardo Moreno Esparza lost his life on Trasmountain Road and Loop 375, after the runaway cement truck he was driving crashed into a semi-truck – with the whole incident captured on video. Esparza was pronounced dead on scene, and since then a plethora of
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EL PASO, Texas — A wrong-way driver triggered a crash on Paisano Thursday afternoon that sent four people to the hospital. El Paso police responded to the crash that occurred along westbound Paisano at the exit to McNutt. Two SUVs, one that was headed in the wrong direction, were involved in the collision. It wasn’t
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UPDATE, May 6: The driver of a car that struck a a man sitting on a bench before slamming into an electric pole and rolling over in the Lower Valley has been arrested, El Paso police said Thursday as they also revealed that the jailed motorist had a child with him in the car at
Continue Reading UPDATE: New Mexico State Police on Wednesday released the identities of two people killed in a rollover crash along Interstate 10 near Deming on Tuesday. The deceased, Revy Mitchell, 70, from Texas and Marvin Maxey, 63, from Arkansas, were passengers in an SUV carrying seven people that investigators said suffered a blown rear tire which
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UPDATE, May 4: Police on Tuesday identified a man killed in Lower Valley traffic crash the day prior, but investigators still don’t know what caused his car to run into a pole. Authorities said the victim, 52–year old Oswaldo Wong of El Paso, struck a traffic light signal pole at the intersection of Lomaland and
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EL PASO, Texas — A federal fugitive with a small child in his car led Texas state troopers on a “reckless” chase through the streets of El Paso on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The Texas Department of Public Safety said Richard Moreno, 25, of Horizon City refused to stop when troopers tried to pull him over
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