{"id":464018,"date":"2026-10-12T20:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/464018\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T20:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:10:26","slug":"1-airlifted-after-semitruck-crash-in-east-el-paso-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/464018\/","title":{"rendered":"1 airlifted after semitruck crash in East El Paso County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 A semitruck driver had to be airlifted after a crash Sunday morning, Oct. 11 in East El Paso County, according to the Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>The crash, involving a semitruck, happened just before 10 a.m. on Gateway East near Eastlake.<\/p>\n<p>The driver had to be extricated and then was airlifted by the Fire Department\u2019s Fire STAR helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>A fuel leak has been contained and the scene has been turned over to the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Texas Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson described the truck that was involved in the crash as a \u201cheavy-duty wrecker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A crash has closed Gateway East at Eastlake on Sunday morning, Oct. 11, the Texas Department of Transportation said.<\/p>\n<p>Clearing time is listed as \u201cuntil further notice.\u201d The Eastlake exit has now reopened as of about 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>We will update this story when we learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 A semitruck driver had to be airlifted after a crash Sunday morning, Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-464018","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\/464018","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=464018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}