{"id":407826,"date":"2026-08-16T03:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T03:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407826\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T03:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T03:50:55","slug":"1-dead-in-wrong-way-crash-in-east-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407826\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead in wrong-way crash in East 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=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) &#8211; A 72-year-old man is dead after an early-morning collision on Friday, Aug. 14 in East El Paso, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At about 5 a.m., El Paso Police&#8217;s Special Traffic Investigations Unit and the DWI Task Force responded to a crash involving two vehicles along Interstate 10 East at the Loop 375 interchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the preliminary investigation, Julian Lujan, 25, was driving a pickup truck southbound on the northbound lanes of Loop 375.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pickup truck collided head-on with a Toyota Yaris, driven by 72-year-old Alberto Gonzalez Juarez. Gonzalez Juarez was transported to a hospital, but died from his injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not said if Lujan will be facing charges in the crash or if he was hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is the 36th traffic fatality inside the City limits compared to 37 at the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation continues, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"444\" height=\"302\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktsm_articles_153\/d7d9c9c246da794e05df72b9fa0ccee0.jpg\"\/><\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) &#8211; A 72-year-old man is dead after an early-morning collision on Friday, Aug. 14&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[142648,142649,1784,138,140,139,1785,142650,51926,142647,3456],"class_list":["post-407826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-alberto-gonzalez-juarez","tag-dwi-task-force","tag-east-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police","tag-gonzalez-juarez","tag-interstate-10-east","tag-julian-lujan","tag-pickup-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407826","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=407826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}