{"id":228192,"date":"2026-03-31T07:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228192\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:08:14","slug":"74-year-old-dies-after-car-crosses-median-causing-shutdown-of-i-10-west-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228192\/","title":{"rendered":"74-year-old dies after car crosses median, causing shutdown of I-10 West this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A man died after a three-vehicle crash that snarled traffic on I-10 West and Gateway West earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p>The El Paso Police Department\u2019s Special Traffic Investigations unit was called to the crash at 8:41 a.m. Saturday, March 14, at I-10 West at Mile Marker 26 near Hawkins.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary information indicates a 2004 Chevrolet Malibu exited a nearby parking lot, failed to stop, crossed all lanes of Gateway West and jumped the center median into the westbound lanes of I-10. <\/p>\n<p>Once on the interstate, the Malibu collided with two other westbound vehicles before coming to rest in the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the Malibu\u2019s driver, 74-year-old Sergio Miguel Gomez of Central El Paso, suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital. <\/p>\n<p>A passenger in the Malibu was also taken to the hospital with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The other vehicles involved were a 2018 Subaru Crosstrek driven and a 2018 Subaru. <\/p>\n<p>Police said Gomez later died from his injuries on March 26.<\/p>\n<p>The death is the 11th traffic fatality in El Paso this year, compared with 16 at this time in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/i-10-west-shut-down-after-5-vehicle-crash-near-mile-marker-26-traffic-exits-at-airway?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">I-10 West re-opens after 5-vehicle crash<\/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 man died after a three-vehicle crash that snarled traffic on I-10 West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-228192","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\/228192","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=228192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}