{"id":467038,"date":"2026-10-15T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467038\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:42:07","slug":"police-confirm-20-year-old-motorcyclist-died-after-lower-valley-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467038\/","title":{"rendered":"Police confirm: 20-year-old motorcyclist died after Lower Valley crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Police confirm the motorcyclist who crashed Wednesday night in the Lower Valley has died. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, 20-year-old Brandon Olivas died from the injuries he suffered after a crash on the 7900 block of Knights Drive, near Thomas Manor Park. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/developing-one-person-in-critical-condition-after-lower-valley-crash?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Developing: One person in critical condition after Lower Valley crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators with EPPD&#8217;s Special Traffic Investigation Unit believe that at around 7:31 p.m., Olivas was speeding on a 2019 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle, heading east on Knights Drive, when he crashed into a 2005 Chevy Malibu.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the Malibu was going west on Knights but then was turning when the crash happened. <\/p>\n<p>Olivas suffered serious injuries and was rushed to the hospital, where he later died. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/crash-blocks-left-lane-on-i-10-west-at-lomaland-just-after-7-am-thursday?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crash blocks left lane on I-10 West at Lomaland just after 7 a.m. Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators concluded that speed and &#8220;failure to yield the right of way&#8221; caused the crash. <\/p>\n<p>Per EPPD numbers, this is the 53rd traffic death of 2026, compared to 50 this same time last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.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 Police confirm the motorcyclist who crashed Wednesday night in the Lower Valley has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-467038","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\/467038","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=467038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}