{"id":371878,"date":"2026-07-14T00:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:33:09","slug":"police-say-79-year-old-man-hit-by-a-car-in-central-el-paso-friday-night-has-died-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371878\/","title":{"rendered":"Police say 79-year-old man hit by a car in Central El Paso Friday night has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The person who was hit by a car Friday night and left with serious injuries in Central El Paso has passed away.  <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, 79-year-old Lorenzo Sanchez died in the hospital from the injuries he suffered after he was hit by a car while crossing the street at 4600 Dyer St. on Friday at around 10:42 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/pedestrian-seriously-injured-in-crash-at-dyer-pierce?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pedestrian seriously injured in crash at Dyer, Pierce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe Sanchez crossed the street outside a pedestrian crossing area when they were hit by a 2017 Cadillac XT5 that was driving south on Dyer. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Cadillac is not facing charges.<\/p>\n<p>According to police statistics, this is the 26th traffic death of 2026, compared to 33 at the same time in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/loop-375-westbound-ramp-shut-after-motorcycle-vehicle-crash-near-yarbrough?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two killed in Lower Valley motorcycle crash at Cesar Chavez and Yarbrough<\/a><\/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 The person who was hit by a car Friday night and left with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-371878","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\/371878","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=371878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}