EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 76-year-old man died after a hit-and-run crash on Loop 375 South, and El Paso police are asking for the public’s help identifying the driver who fled the scene.<\/p>\n
On June 18, police were called to a crash on Loop 375 South near Pelicano around 11:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they found two vehicles at the scene.<\/p>\n
Manuel Oliva Contreras was driving southbound on Loop 375 when his vehicle was rear-ended by a dark-colored vehicle, identified by investigators as Unit 1. Contreras was initially reported to have suffered non-life-threatening injuries. However, police later learned he died at a hospital from injuries sustained in the crash.<\/p>\n
The Special Traffic Investigations unit took over the case. Preliminary information indicates the driver of Unit 1 was traveling southbound on Loop 375 at a high rate of speed when the vehicle rear-ended Contreras’s vehicle. According to police, the driver of unit one fled the scene on foot.<\/p>\n
Investigators are asking anyone with information about the crash or the driver who fled the scene to call police at (915)832-4400. Those who want to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers of El Paso at (915)566-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n
Contreras’s death is the 22nd traffic fatality this year, compared to 29 at the same time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 76-year-old man died after a hit-and-run crash on Loop 375 South, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-344110","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\/344110","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=344110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}