A semi-truck overturned on Interstate 10 east at Porfirio Diaz around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, forcing lane closures along the highway. El Paso police said wreck, which snarled afternoon and evening commute traffic, was finally cleared about 6:30 p.m. I-10 east @ Porfirio Diaz, collision, FINAL, all lanes open. Backup to Asarco. — @EPPOLICETRAFFIC (@eppolicetraffic) October
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A Sun Metro bus caught fire and was destroyed by flames late Monday night on I-10 near Schuster. It happened on the freeway’s eastbound lanes just before 11 p.m. The fire was put out about 30 minutes later; all that remained of the bus was a charred shell. All of this affected traffic for a
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I-10 near Geronimo is now open after a semi-truck struck a barrier and knocked down a road sign Monday night. All lanes were closed in both directions along that stretch of I-10 as Texas Department of Transportation crews worked to try to make repairs. All lanes opened up just before 6 a.m. Reports from crews
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UPDATE: Authorities have identified the wife and husband truck driving team killed in a fire crash Friday afternoon on Interstate 10 near the Sierra Blanca border checkpoint. Texas Department of Public Safety officers confirmed 62-year-old Deborah Regan and her passenger 64-year-old Terry Huey of Springtown, Texas were driving a semi-truck along Interstate 10 eastbound and
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A homeless, disabled veteran in a wheelchair was struck and killed late Friday afternoon by a semi-truck near North Loop and Americas in the city’s Lower Valley, witnesses told ABC-7. El Paso police confirmed the deadly accident happened around 4 p.m. At the scene, a white sheet covered the victim and a mangled wheelchair with
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Two separate car crashes happening late Wednesday night along Interstate 10 at Porfirio Diaz forced authorities to close westbound lanes through downtown. Authorities described the crashes as minor and said no one was injured in either of them, but indicated they needed to close I-10 west to allow tow trucks to clear the wreckage. The
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Two separate truck crashes along Interstate-10 eastbound on Tuesday afternoon caused traffic problems for afternoon commuters in both El Paso and Hudspeth counties. In El Paso, a box truck crashed into a cement construction barrier along Interstate 10 eastbound near the Executive Center exit on Tuesday afternoon, causing a significant traffic backup. The incident happened
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More than 2,300 people were without electricity Saturday morning in northeast El Paso after a car crashed into a utility pole at Loop 375 and Kenworthy. Police shut down Loop 375 while they used an excavator to get a trapped person out of the car. By early afternoon, officials said Loop 375 had reopened to
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The El Paso Fire Department said a vehicle rolled over on Interstate 10 westbound at Lee Trevino on Friday afternoon. A spokesman told ABC-7 that one person treated on the scene for minor injuries. There was no immediate word on what caused the car to flip over. Authorities had recommended avoiding the area due to
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A car and semi-truck collided along State Road 26 near Hatch on Thursday afternoon, killing an Arizona couple and shutting down the highway at milepost 44 for over five hours. The head-on collision happened around 2:15 p.m. about two miles outside of Hatch; New Mexico State Police said the car crossed the center line for
Continue Reading Interstate 10 westbound in El Paso was blocked near the Executive Center exit after a rollover accident during Wednesday evening’s rush hour commute. The crash happened shortly before 5 p.m. and images from the crash scene showed a car flipped over. The wreckage was cleared around 6 p.m. During that hour, traffic was backed up
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A multi-vehicle fire on a car carrier trailer Sunday morning led to the closure of Interstate-10 eastbound, just south of Las Cruces for about an hour and a half, snarling traffic. The closure at milepost 145 happened about 10:30 a.m. as fire crews worked to put out the flames. New Mexico Dept. of Transportation officials
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