{"id":157376,"date":"2026-02-09T20:43:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/157376\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:43:45","slug":"woman-dies-after-being-struck-by-truck-in-lower-valley-dwi-task-force-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/157376\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after being struck by truck in Lower Valley; DWI task force investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A woman has died after being hit by a vehicle in the Lower Valley over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>The Special Traffic Investigations Unit responded to the incident on the 7800 block of North Loop in El Paso on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The preliminary investigation revealed that Ana Maria Paniagua, a 57-year-old El Paso resident, offered to drive 62-year-old Aurora Morales home. <\/p>\n<p>As Morales was changing seats, the 1999 Ford F350 began to roll backward, striking Paniagua. <\/p>\n<p>She was transported to the hospital, where she died. <\/p>\n<p>The DWI Task Force was called to assist with the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities are urging anyone with information about the incident to contact the Special Traffic Investigations Unit at 915-212-4080 or the nonemergency number at 915-832-4000. <\/p>\n<p>This marks the seventh traffic fatality in El Paso this year, compared to six at the same time last year. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/person-seriously-injured-in-el-paso-vehicle-collision?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Person seriously injured following crash in Lower Valley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up <\/a>to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A woman has died after being hit by a vehicle in the Lower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-157376","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157376","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=157376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}