{"id":307704,"date":"2026-05-25T07:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307704\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:52:29","slug":"update-motorcyclist-seriously-injured-after-crashing-into-traffic-sign-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307704\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Motorcyclist seriously injured after crashing into traffic sign pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 On Saturday, May 23, the El Paso County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was dispatched at 11:43 a.m. to Loop 375 East at Transmountain for a call regarding a serious motor vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, deputies located a crash involving a motorcycle with serious injuries and requested assistance from the Sheriff&#8217;s Office Special Traffic Investigators (STI).<\/p>\n<p>The eastbound lanes of Loop 375 at Transmountain were closed due to the collision, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary findings of the investigation revealed that while the motorcyclist was exiting a right-hand curve traveling eastbound, they failed to negotiate a subsequent left-hand curve and crashed into a traffic sign pole.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was thrown off the motorcycle and was transported to a hospital with severe injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was being redirected to avoid the closure while law enforcement was on scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to El Paso Sheriff officials, the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(Credit: TxDOT)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779695549_892_bb2866b2-f168-44d0-bd06-4971f69a9e54-Transmountain.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/police-seek-tips-as-hit-and-run-probe-continues-after-pedestrian-seriously-hurt-in-socorro?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police seek tips as hit-and-run probe continues after pedestrian seriously hurt in Socorro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.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 On Saturday, May 23, the El Paso County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was dispatched at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-307704","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\/307704","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=307704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}