{"id":382900,"date":"2026-07-22T21:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382900\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:05:13","slug":"2-dead-after-alleged-high-speed-unsafe-lane-change-causes-crash-on-loop-375","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382900\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead after alleged high-speed, unsafe lane change causes crash on Loop 375"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UPDATE (10:50 a.m.) &#8212; El Paso police confirmed two people died in a truck involved in Tuesday night&#8217;s crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">24-year-old Isaac Ibarra and 24-year-old Fabian Alexander Alonzo died, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to police, three vehicles were involved: the truck Ibarra and Alonzo were in, an SUV driven by a 20-year-old man and a car driven by a 31-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigation revealed the truck drove the Loop 375 at a high rate of speed, passing vehicles, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SUV and car were also driving the same direction when the truck reportedly cut across all lanes and side-swept the SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said the truck kept driving and rear-ended the car. The truck then spun and crashed into the center barrier and hit a concrete pole, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ibarra and Alonzo died to their injuries in the crash, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said these are the 29th and 30th traffic deaths of the year, compared to 34 at this time last year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-46.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1479210\"\/>Isaac Ibarra and Fabian Alexander Alonzo were reportedly in the truck pictured above during the crash.<br \/>(Courtesy: KVIA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crash closed the area of the highway shortly after 6 a.m., according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Special Traffic Investigators are at the scene of a crash involving three vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crash happened on Loop 375 going south at Bob Hope Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Paso Police say the call came in at 9:35 p.m. Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The El Paso Fire Department has confirmed to ABC-7 that one person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of 12:15 a.m. Wednesday morning, all lanes going south on Loop 375 from Pellicano Drive to Rojas Drive are closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a developing story and we will provide updates as we learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE (10:50 a.m.) &#8212; El Paso police confirmed two people died in a truck involved in Tuesday night&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-382900","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\/382900","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=382900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}