UPDATE (2:13 PM) — The El Paso Police Department are looking for a driver of a possible silver in color pickup truck, who they say struck a 26-year-old man while the man was changing a tire.<\/p>\n
Police say that Saturday, at approximately 2:48 am officers responded to a crash involving a pedestrian at I-10 East and Airway. <\/p>\n
The Special Traffic Investigators (STI) unit was called out to assist and police investigation say that the pedestrian was changing a tire. Police investigation reveals that while he was changing the tire a possible silver in color pickup truck struck the man.<\/p>\n
Police say the unknown vehicle exited I-10 at the off ramp to Airway and fled the scene. <\/p>\n
According to police, the pedestrian was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Officials say that the vehicle that fled the scene is possibly a 2010-2015 silver or gray Chevy pick-up truck Quad cab.<\/p>\n
STI is requesting anyone that might have information regarding this incident to call Police (915) 832-4400 or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n
UPDATE (10:06 AM) — According to the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT), all lanes of I-10 East near Airway Blvd. have reopened after being closed for several hours as the El Paso Police Department investigated a pedestrian being hit by car.<\/p>\n
According to a spokesman from the El Paso Fire Department (EPFD), the pedestrian was taken to a hospital in unknown condition by someone at the scene.<\/p>\n
Once more information becomes available, we will update you on air and online.<\/p>\n
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) \u2013 A pedestrian was hit by a car on I-10 East and Airway Blvd., according to the El Paso Police Department.<\/p>\n
Police say they were called to the scene at 2:48 a.m. <\/p>\n
Special Traffic Investigations is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n
Traffic is being diverted to Geronimo. <\/p>\n
This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE (2:13 PM) — The El Paso Police Department are looking for a driver of a possible silver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[137339,8581,138,140,139,140825],"class_list":["post-401523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-abc-7","tag-car","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-person-hit-by-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401523","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=401523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}