{"id":230850,"date":"2026-04-01T22:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230850\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:03:24","slug":"el-paso-motorcyclist-dies-after-crash-in-central-el-paso-investigation-continues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230850\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso motorcyclist dies after crash in central El Paso; investigation continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 49-year-old El Paso motorcyclist was killed Tuesday morning in a crash in central El Paso, according to a preliminary investigation by the Special Traffic Investigation Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the unit responded at 10:43 a.m. to a collision at 800 Walnut and 2200 Montana.<\/p>\n<p>A 2022 Chevrolet Colorado driven by a 63-year-old El Paso resident approached the intersection and made a left turn to go westbound on Montana, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a 2018 BMW G-310 motorcycle was traveling westbound on Montana, according to the preliminary investigation. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/newsletter-daily\/motorcyclist-dies-after-central-el-paso-crash-near-montana-and-n-walnut?teaserSource=trending?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Motorcyclist dies after Central El Paso crash near Montana and N. Walnut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police said the motorcyclist, Thomas Joseph Saddler, 49, of El Paso, attempted to avoid the collision and veered to the right but struck the back of the Chevrolet.<\/p>\n<p>Saddler was dislodged from the motorcycle and suffered serious injuries, investigators said. He was taken to the hospital but later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The crash marked the 13th traffic fatality of 2026, compared with 17 at the same time last year, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>Motorcyclist dies after Central El Paso crash near Montana and N. Walnut. March 31, 2026. Credit: KFOX14\/CBS4<\/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 49-year-old El Paso motorcyclist was killed Tuesday morning in a crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-230850","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\/230850","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=230850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}