EL PASO, Texas — Major construction projects on Interstate 10 on Sunday and Monday could impact you. Here’s how to avoid the worst of it. A 26-hour closure will take place from 4 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 9 through 6 a.m. Monday, Feb. 10. I-10 westbound shut down from Schuster to Sunland ParkDetour: Traffic will exit
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The 68-year-old driver of a semi-truck that left a highway overpass and crashed below onto a Las Cruces road continues to recover from his injuries, according to the owner of the trucking company he works for. “It could have been bad,” said Royal Jones, the president and CEO of Mesilla
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s been almost seven months since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott banned so-called red light cameras in Texas. Now, after a six-month “wind-up” agreement between the city of El Paso and Redlfex Traffic Systems, those lights are supposed to be coming down. Texas House Bill 1631 was signed into law on June
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OZONA, Texas — A 64-year-old El Paso man died in a weekend traffic crash along Interstate 10 about 12 miles east of Ozona in Crockett County. Texas state troopers said Lorenzo Edward Noriega lost control of his pickup truck early Saturday morning and skidded across the interstate median before overturning. Noriega died at the scene
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Police and Fire responded to a 4-vehicle accident in northeast El Paso. This happened around 11 a.m. Tuesday on Dyer Street and Deer Avenue. According to police, three people were transported to the hospital with minor injuries. Dyer was closed and traffic was being rerouted east on Deer. No
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EL PASO, Texas — High winds in the forecast for El Paso on Monday should not impact ongoing Texas Department of Transportation construction projects, the department said. “Typically, a project is timed to allow for weather days,” TxDOT El Paso spokeswoman Jennifer Wright said. “If we have to, not do an operation due to high
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EL PASO, Texas — Loop 375 is back open in both directions after a two-vehicle accident near Pellicano, according to TXDOT. “Crews are done earlier than expected!” the agency tweeted. “All lanes are open now! The accident happened at about 11 a.m. In a tweet, El Paso police said one of the vehicles crashed into
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EL PASO, Texas — An alleged drunk driver fleeing from Border Patrol agents with a van carrying foreign nationals was being blamed for a rollover crash near downtown El Paso late Wednesday night killed one of his passengers and injured three more. Police on Friday said the van driver, 35-year-old Daniel Humberto Castillo-Nunez of Chaparral,
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EL PASO, Texas — A motorcyclist was jailed Thursday after leading Texas state troopers on an early morning chase along Interstate-10 from Sunland Park to Piedras and back again. That chase, which lasted about 15 minutes, came to an end when authorities said the motorcyclist ran out of gas. Much of the pursuit was captured
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EL PASO, Texas — A 61-year-old pedestrian was struck by an industrial pickup truck and killed at an east El Paso intersection late Wednesday night. The deadly incident occurred about 10 p.m. at Pellicano and Bob Hope. Police on Thursday identified the victim as Julie Minchey of El Paso. Her death was the city’s eighth
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said a pedestrian was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle on I-10 West near Horizon Thursday morning. Deputies blocked off the westbound lanes of the freeway near Harnose following the 7 a.m. crash. The interstate finally reopened around
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A tractor-trailer rig ran off Interstate 10 and crashed under an overpass in Las Cruces on Tuesday, with the entire incident being captured on a nearby hotel’s surveillance camera. (You can watch the footage in the video player at the top of this article.) Dave Patel provided ABC-7 with a
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso drivers are no strangers to reckless drivers, drivers who cut other drivers off or tailgate. Police tell ABC-7 drivers who witness erratic and reckless driving can call 9-1-1. But they don’t want drivers to call with generic information about a driver with just the color of the vehicle. Police
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EL PASO, Texas — During the three first weeks of January, El Paso has seen four traffic crashes causing six deaths, according to police, who blamed speeding as a key contributing cause of those fatal collisions. El Paso police sent out a tweet that said in part, “speeding to save just a few minutes could
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EL PASO, Texas — An SUV rolled over along Transmountain Road on Tuesday afternoon, injuring the driver. The single-vehicle rollover crash occurred on eastbound Transmountain near mile marker 17 about 3:45 p.m. Authorities said one person was taken to the hospital, but there was no word on a condition or the extent of injuries. El
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EL PASO, Texas — A motorcyclist from Mexico was killed after crashing into a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle early Monday morning along the Border Highway. Police on Tuesday identified the deceased as 60-year-old Rafael Montes de Oca Reynos of Ciudad Jaurez. He was El Paso’s sixth traffic death of the year. The deadly crash happened
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(Editor’s note: This article has been corrected to reflect that it was a sports car and not a pickup truck that triggered the crash.) EL PASO, Texas — A three-vehicle crash that authorities said was triggered by a speeding sports car driver killed three people on El Paso’s northeast side Friday evening, police confirmed Saturday.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — A speeding 19-year-old unlicensed motorist was killed in a Thursday afternoon crash that flipped his SUV along a busy east El Paso street, police said Friday. Authorities identified the teen killed as Esteban Herrera and said he was the city’s second traffic death of the new year. Police also confirmed to
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MESQUITE, New Mexico — An El Paso teenager was struck by a Jeep and killed early Thursday while trying to run across Interstate 10 near Mesquite, south of Las Cruces. Andrew Gutierrez, 18, was hit in the middle lane of the westbound interstate near mile post 153 about 5:15 a.m., according to the New Mexico
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso drivers are getting toll bills in the mail, even though there are no toll roads yet in El Paso. At least two local drivers received bills from roads operated by the North Texas Tolling Authority, for an area around Dallas that neither had been to. Needless to say, they
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EL PASO, Texas — A semi-truck crashed and caught fire on Interstate 10 eastbound near Montecillo early Tuesday morning, forcing the closure of the highway until about 12:30 p.m. The crash and fire happened just after 4:30 a.m.; El Paso police said the driver and the passenger were able to walk away with no injuries.
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EL PASO, Texas — A deadly late night crash involving four vehicles at a central El Paso intersection was the result of an accused drunk driving soldier from Fort Bliss, authorities said Friday. The crash happened at Raynor and Yandell before 11 p.m. Thursday when police said the intoxicated driver in a pickup truck ran
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EL PASO, Texas — Police said they closed Loop 375 north at Bob Hope and south at Vista Del Sol, snarling traffic late Friday morning, due to what they labeled a “jumper” incident. Authorities described the situation, which happened shortly before 11 a.m., as an apparent suicide attempt and said one person was taken to
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EL PASO, Texas — The Texas Department of Transportation is working on several projects this year to improve El Paso roads and freeways. One of the largest projects in the works is the I-10 Connect Project, a multi-year project that will continue throughout 2020. The project includes building ramps over I-10 where it intersects with
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EL PASO, Texas — Two of the 100 worst congested roads in Texas are located here in El Paso. According to the annual study released by the Texas A&M transportation institute, some of the heaviest El Paso commute congestion is on Mesa Street between Executive Center Blvd. and downtown. There’s an average five minute delay
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The New Mexico Department of Transportation will begin construction on one of the busiest interchanges in town on Thursday. “I think it might slow down I-25 for a little bit,” said Kaimyn Toledo, who relies on the intersection. The state will build two massive roundabouts that will replace the entrance and
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EL PASO, Texas — With Christmas right around the corner, thousands of people are braving heavy traffic, preparing for one of the busiest holiday traveling weekends of the year. Dozens of cars were lined up anxiously waiting to enter into Mexico at the Yselta Port of Entry Sunday night. Travelers who spoke with ABC-7 noticed
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Sun Fire Boulevard will be closing down at the intersection of Pellicano Drive for the coming weeks. El Paso County’s Planning and Development Transportation Division will continue their work to expand those roads as the city continues to grow. While the city plans on making improvements to the roadway, drivers are
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EL PASO, Texas — An empty dump truck barreled through a red light at the intersection of Mesa Street and Thunderbird Drive on Friday, smashing into several cars and narrowly missing several businesses in its path. The accident was reported just after 1 p.m. and witnesses said the truck appeared to have had a brake
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EL PASO, Texas — A New Mexico man was jailed Friday on $100,000 bond after police contend he chased his ex-wife’s car while firing a gun at her, culminating in an apparent crash at an east El Paso intersection. 35–year-old Daniel Villareal of Santa Teresa was charged with aggravated assault stemming from what police called
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