{"id":263926,"date":"2026-04-24T05:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263926\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:23:14","slug":"3-officers-hurt-2-eppd-units-crashed-in-central-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263926\/","title":{"rendered":"3 officers hurt, 2 EPPD units crashed in Central El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:KTSM;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 Three officers with the El Paso Police Department were transported after two units crashed into each other on Thursday evening, April 23, in Central El Paso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some video and photos of the aftermath were posted to social media account, FitFam. The crash happened along the intersection of Pershing Drive and N. Copia Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the video, it appears that the police units crashed into each other, nearly colliding with a traffic light at Pershing Drive. It is unclear what led up to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to EPPD, three officers were taken to a hospital to get checked on. Police did not specify how severe the injuries were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Special Traffic Investigation was called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KTSM 9 News has reached out to the El Paso police and fire departments for additional information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story and will update you once we learn more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> 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 Three officers with the El Paso Police Department were transported after two units&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[22820,138,140,139,1785,2263,21377,498,98820],"class_list":{"0":"post-263926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-central-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso-headlines","11":"tag-el-paso-news","12":"tag-el-paso-police","13":"tag-el-paso-police-department","14":"tag-eppd","15":"tag-ktsm","16":"tag-pershing-drive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263926","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=263926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}