{"id":159536,"date":"2026-02-11T05:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159536\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:34:06","slug":"woman-arrested-on-intoxication-manslaughter-charge-in-deadly-lower-valley-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159536\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested on intoxication manslaughter charge in deadly Lower Valley crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A woman was arrested in connection with a deadly pedestrian crash in the Lower Valley on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested 62-year-old Aurora Morales.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Traffic Investigations Unit responded to the incident on the 7800 block of North Loop in El Paso.<\/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>Morales was charged with intoxication manslaughter. <\/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:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/woman-dies-after-being-struck-by-truck-in-lower-valley-dwi-task-force-investigating?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Woman dies after being struck by truck in Lower Valley; DWI task force investigating<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.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 was arrested in connection with a deadly pedestrian crash in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-159536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159536","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=159536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}