{"id":249334,"date":"2026-04-14T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249334\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:04:51","slug":"deadly-crash-closes-eastbound-u-s-70-in-las-cruces-driver-may-have-had-medical-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249334\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly crash closes eastbound U.S. 70 in Las Cruces; driver may have had medical episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS \u2014 A deadly crash shut down a stretch of eastbound Highway 70 in Las Cruces on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Las Cruces police closed a portion of eastbound Highway 70 between Sonoma Ranch Boulevard and Mesa Grande Boulevard after the crash, which occurred about 7:30 a.m. along the eastbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>Both eastbound lanes were temporarily closed, and traffic was being detoured off the highway at Sonoma Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>Police said preliminary information from the scene indicates the driver of a pickup may have suffered a medical episode that led to the vehicle striking the cable barriers dividing the highway. <\/p>\n<p>The pickup then struck another eastbound vehicle. No injuries were reported in the second vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Police urged westbound drivers to avoid rubbernecking or using a camera while traveling through the area, noting that one westbound crash had already been reported and was believed to be the result of driver inattention while passing the crash scene.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico State Police is expected to handle the investigation into the deadly crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS \u2014 A deadly crash shut down a stretch of eastbound Highway 70 in Las Cruces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-249334","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\/249334","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=249334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}