{"id":154888,"date":"2026-02-07T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/154888\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:48:12","slug":"socorro-isd-teacher-dies-in-far-east-el-paso-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/154888\/","title":{"rendered":"Socorro ISD teacher dies in far East El Paso crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"http:\/\/ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 A Socorro Independent School District (SISD) teacher is dead following a two-vehicle crash on Thursday evening, Feb. 5, in far East El Paso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SISD confirmed to KTSM that the victim, identified as Virginia Striplin, was a teacher at O\u2019Shea Keleher Whole Child Academy. She was taken to the hospital, where she later died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At around 8:36 p.m. on Thursday, deputies responded to a motor vehicle crash at the intersection of Eastlake Boulevard and Blingwood Street. Upon arrival, deputies located a two-vehicle crash involving serious injuries and requested assistance from the EPCSO\u2019s Special Traffic Investigators (STI), which assumed the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Preliminary investigation revealed that a silver Audi was traveling westbound on Eastlake Boulevard when a blue Nissan SUV traveling eastbound attempted to make a left turn onto Blingwood Street. The SUV failed to yield the right of way, resulting in the crash between the vehicles, according to EPCSO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 A Socorro Independent School District (SISD) teacher is dead following a two-vehicle crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,498,46013,63980,22082,63932],"class_list":{"0":"post-154888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news","11":"tag-ktsm","12":"tag-motor-vehicle-crash","13":"tag-oshea-keleher-whole-child-academy","14":"tag-sisd","15":"tag-virginia-striplin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}