{"id":306663,"date":"2026-05-24T04:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306663\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T04:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:31:12","slug":"update-transmountain-reopens-after-motorcycle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306663\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Transmountain reopens after motorcycle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:KTSM;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KTSM&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 One person was seriously hurt in a motorcycle crash on Transmountain Road on Saturday afternoon, May 23, an El Paso Fire Department spokesperson said.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened on Transmountain (Loop 375) at Mile Marker 17, the Texas Department of Transportation said. The crash closed eastbound traffic for about six hours before reopening after 6 p.m., TxDOT said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A spokesperson with El Paso Fire said the crash happened at about 11:45 a.m. Saturday and involved a motorcycle. One person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries (Code 3).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We have reached out to the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office for more information.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.&quot;}\" 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 One person was seriously hurt in a motorcycle crash on Transmountain Road on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1786,138,9238,140,139,5160,27,9237,17615,111090],"class_list":["post-306663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-department-spokesperson","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-fire","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-motorcycle-crash","tag-texas","tag-texas-department-of-transportation","tag-transmountain","tag-transmountain-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306663","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=306663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}