{"id":263623,"date":"2026-04-24T00:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263623\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:54:36","slug":"motorcyclist-airlifted-to-el-paso-hospital-after-las-cruces-crash-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263623\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist airlifted to El Paso hospital after Las Cruces crash dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A motorcyclist was killed Wednesday after a crash in Las Cruces.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Las Cruces Police Department, the crash between a car and a motorcycle happened at around 1:30 p.m., and it temporarily closed Valley Drive at Rigsby Road. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the motorcyclist was critically injured and was airlifted to University Medical Center of El Paso, where they eventually succumbed to their injuries. <\/p>\n<p>The identity of the motorcyclist was not released.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, while details about how the crash happened are not available, LCPD said the crash has resulted in Valley Drive being temporarily closed from Avenida de Mesilla to Boutz Road.<\/p>\n<p>Rigsby Road was also closed near the intersection with Valley Drive.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED:<a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/two-arrested-in-west-el-paso-in-albuquerque-road-rage-shooting-death-case?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/two-arrested-in-west-el-paso-in-albuquerque-road-rage-shooting-death-case?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two arrested in West El Paso in connection to Albuquerque road rage shooting death case<\/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":"LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A motorcyclist was killed Wednesday after a crash in Las Cruces. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-263623","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\/263623","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=263623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}