{"id":478463,"date":"2026-10-27T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478463\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:46:09","slug":"car-hits-stopped-semi-in-i-10-construction-zone-21-year-old-el-paso-driver-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478463\/","title":{"rendered":"Car hits stopped semi in I-10 construction zone; 21-year-old El Paso driver dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VAN HORN, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A Saturday evening crash on Interstate 10 west near Van Horn killed a 21-year-old man from El Paso after his car struck a semi-truck that had stopped for construction, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Aaron Stephen Pepe was driving a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu when the crash occurred at about 5:57 p.m. near mile marker 181, about 41 miles east of Van Horn.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe Pepe \u201cfailed to control his speed,\u201d lost control of the car and crashed into the semi-truck, which had stopped because of construction, DPS said. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/eastbound-i-10-shut-down-at-clint-outside-el-paso-all-lanes-closed-clearing-time-unknown?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lanes reopen after crash shut down I-10 east at Clint<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pepe was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the semi-truck did not report any injuries. <\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/crash-closes-left-lane-on-i-10-west-at-us-54-just-after-8-am-tuesday?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crash closes left lane on I-10 West at US-54 just after 8 a.m. Tuesday<\/a><\/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":"VAN HORN, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A Saturday evening crash on Interstate 10 west near Van Horn killed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-478463","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\/478463","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=478463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}