Staff
The El Paso Journal
Sunday, January 15, 2023 | 17:44
Step.- A series of fatal road accidents have left at least five dead in the El Paso metropolitan area during the Martin Luther King weekend under different circumstances, according to reports from police corporations in the region.
In the first of the cases, a man died while trying to pick up a tarp that fell from the vehicle in which he was traveling on the Patriot Freeway –US Highway 54–, near Fred Wilson, on Friday at noon.
The driver of a Ford F-250 pickup stopped in the right lane of the freeway after a tarp on the bed of the pickup partially fell. One of the passengers in the vehicle, a 22-year-old male, got out to try to pick up the tarp.
It was then that the guide of a 2016 Jetta tried to avoid the pickup that was stopped on the road, but when changing to the left lane it hit the pedestrian and collided with an open door of the F-250, who became the road victim. number four of the year
Motorcycle collided with truck
El Paso’s fifth traffic fatality of 2022 occurred at 8:46 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Dyer and Ameen in the Northeast.
A brown 2016 GMC Sierra pickup truck was traveling north on Dyer when a 2006 Black Honda CBR motorcycle was coming down the same street, turning left on Ameen, moving in the center lane at high speed.
The driver of the Sierra failed to yield the right-of-way to the motorcycle, resulting in a collision between the two vehicles. The motorcyclist succumbed to injuries sustained at the scene.
Pedestrian struck on Loop 375
A pedestrian, presumably a migrant, was hit by a vehicle that fled on Saturday at 4:30 am, on the section of César Chávez Border Highway – Loop 375 – near Midway.
Preliminary investigation revealed that a group of pedestrians was crossing Loop 375 from south to north when a vehicle struck the pedestrian in the same lane before fleeing the scene.
The victim was taken to the University Medical Center, where he tragically died, becoming the number 6 traffic fatality of the year.
The area in which the crash occurred has been the path of dozens of migrants crossing from Juárez to El Paso, for which reason road signs have been displayed asking the guides for caution.
Dies after losing control
On Sunday at 1:56 am, a 59-year-old man was killed in a fatal crash in central El Paso.
Investigations indicate that Gabriel González Rangel, a resident of Valle de las Misiones, was traveling east in the 6700 block of El Paso Drive when he lost control of his red 2001 Honda CRV.
The vehicle collided with the guardrail and concrete barrier on the north side of the road. The guider was partially ejected since he was not wearing a seat belt.
The CRV ended up crashing into a stone fence of a residence, causing the death of the driver, who became the number seven traffic fatality of the year in El Paso.
Death in Sunland Park
Sunland Park Firefighters reported a fatal rollover in an irrigation canal in neighboring New Mexico City on Saturday morning.
A vehicle was overturned in the dry riverbed in the 5900 block of Crawford Road, the corporation reported. The guider died at the scene.
