{"id":371547,"date":"2026-07-13T20:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371547\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:23:11","slug":"pedestrian-dead-following-crash-in-central-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371547\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dead following crash in Central El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 A 79-year-old pedestrian is dead after a crash in Central El Paso, according to the El Paso Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:1 person seriously hurt in crash involving pedestrian in Central El Paso;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/1-person-seriously-hurt-crash-053438304.html\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a01 person seriously hurt in crash involving pedestrian in Central El Paso\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As KTSM 9 News previously reported, the crash happened shortly at 10:42 p.m. on Friday, July 10, along 4600 Dyer St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EPPD&#8217;s Special Traffic Investigation Unit&#8217;s preliminary investigation revealed that an SUV was traveling southbound on Dyer when the driver struck a 79-year-old man, identified as Lorenzo Sanchez. Sanchez was crossing Dyer at a &#8220;non-designated area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was transported to a hospital where he later died to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Contributing factors in this crash are the pedestrian crossing in a non-designated area,&#8221; read a news release from EPPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is the 26th traffic fatality compared to 33 this same time last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation continues.<\/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-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 A 79-year-old pedestrian is dead after a crash in Central El Paso, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[22820,138,140,139,2263,498,131610,131611],"class_list":["post-371547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-central-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police-department","tag-ktsm","tag-lorenzo-sanchez","tag-pedestrian-crossing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371547","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=371547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}