Incident Report identifies officers injured in Christmas Day crash

The El Paso Police Department identified the two officers injured following a crash early Christmas morning as 33-year-old Steve Cervantes and 36-year-old Christopher Davis.

The crash happened in Northeast El Paso at 12:42 am, police said.

Police said the officers were in a patrol car when they crashed into an overpass pillar on the 2600 block of Chaffee Road, near Ft. Bliss Cemetery and the Humane Society.

The force of the impact badly damaged the patrol unit and caused the airbags to deploy, a police incident report states.

Davis, an eight year veteran of the force, was hospitalized with serious injuries. Police said he suffered several broken bones, but is out of the hospital.

Cervantes, a rookie police officer, was driving the patrol unit. The investigator’s opinion in the incident report states, “the driver advised he had become distracted.”

The officers didn’t need to be extracted from the patrol car, police said.

Cervantes was treated and released at the scene, police said.

The incident report does not state whether the officers were wearing seat belts.

The word “none” was listed in a section of the incident report labeled “alcohol/drug specimen type.”

ABC-7 asked a police spokesman if he could clarify some of the information provided in the report, like how was the officer distracted and is the officer going to be disciplined.”

The spokesman merely responded, “I don’t have an answer for that.”