{"id":458879,"date":"2026-10-07T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458879\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:22:37","slug":"police-name-3-killed-in-fridays-west-el-paso-crash-speed-and-alcohol-to-blame-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458879\/","title":{"rendered":"Police name 3 killed in Friday&#8217;s West El Paso crash; speed and alcohol to blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso police have identified the three people who died Friday night in a crash in West El Paso. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, Rafael Mendoza, 49, Edgar Dominguez, 57, and Velsa Dominguez, 56, were killed after two pickup trucks crashed at the intersection of Redd and Southwestern. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the crash happened when a 2020 Ford F250 pickup truck and a 2020 GMC Sierra T-boned, with the GMC hitting a traffic pole. <\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, speed and alcohol are believed to be factors that contributed to the crash. <\/p>\n<p>Rafael Mendoza was riding in the Ford pickup truck with a 49-year-old driver, while Edgar and Velsa Dominguez were in the GMC pickup truck&#8211; Edgar being behind the wheel. <\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported for the 49-year-old driver of the Ford truck.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not specify how alcohol was involved or who was speeding, as the incident is still under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Per police statistics, these are the 47th, 48th and 49th traffic deaths of 2026, compared to 46 in 2025.<\/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 El Paso police have identified the three people who died Friday night in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-458879","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\/458879","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=458879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}