{"id":264960,"date":"2026-04-24T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:55:10","slug":"man-68-dies-after-west-el-paso-crash-police-say-he-crossed-outside-crosswalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264960\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 68, dies after West El Paso crash; police say he crossed outside crosswalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 68-year-old man was killed Thursday night after he was hit by a car in West El Paso. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, Ismael Botelo died in the hospital from injuries he sustained after he was hit by a 2024 Mitsubishi Mirage on the 2400 block of N. Mesa Street, near the McDonald&#8217;s by the University of Texas at El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>EPPD said Botelo crossed the street without using the crosswalk when he was hit. <\/p>\n<p>According to police numbers, this is the 17th traffic death of 2026, compared to 21 at the same time in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/newsletter-daily\/vehicle-vs-pedestrian-involved-accident?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police respond to crash involving pedestrian in West El Paso<\/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 68-year-old man was killed Thursday night after he was hit by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-264960","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\/264960","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=264960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}