{"id":203509,"date":"2026-03-13T20:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/203509\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:17:33","slug":"police-identify-driver-seriously-injured-in-east-el-paso-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/203509\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify driver seriously injured in East El Paso crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 The driver who was seriously hurt in a single-vehicle crash on Wednesday, March 11, in East El Paso, has been identified by the El Paso Police Department.<\/p>\n

1 person seriously hurt after crash in East El Paso <\/a><\/p>\n

Police identified the driver as 43-year-old Norma Garcia.<\/p>\n

\"Norma<\/p>\n

Norma Garcia. Photo courtesy of GoFundMe<\/p>\n

As KTSM previously reported, the crash happened shortly before 3 p.m. at the Lee Trevino exit 30. The El Paso Fire Department said one person, later identified as Garcia, was transported with serious injuries.<\/p>\n

A post on social media circulated saying that the object that flew through Garcia\u2019s windshield was an axe. El Paso Police have come out to say that it was not an axe, but a metal road.<\/p>\n

The family has started a GoFundMe<\/a> for Garcia\u2019s medical expenses. According to the family, Garcia is in critical condition.<\/p>\n

As of reporting, no charges have been filed.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story and will be updating you once we learn more.<\/p>\n

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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 The driver who was seriously hurt in a single-vehicle crash on Wednesday, March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1784,138,140,139,1785,2263,498,80272],"class_list":["post-203509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-east-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police","tag-el-paso-police-department","tag-ktsm","tag-norma-garcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203509","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=203509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}