33-Year-Old Passenger Dies after Being Ejected in NE El Paso Car Crash on U.S. 54 N

Woman Killed in Northeast El Paso 2-Vehicle Collision on U.S. 54 N

El Paso, Texas (December 29, 2017)   – A driver disobeyed a stop sign at an intersection in the Far Northeast El Paso Wednesday afternoon causing a deadly two-vehicle crash on U.S. 54 N.
Police reported that the crash took place at around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 27 near the intersection of U.S. 54 North and Mesquite Hills.
Rosa Mendoza, 63, was the driver of a 2011 Chevrolet Equinox and was traveling northbound on Mesquite Hills when she ran a red light at the intersection of U.S. 54 North and crashed into a 2000 Jeep Wrangler. The Jeep had been traveling eastbound on U.S. 54 North, and the impact of the crash caused it to flip, ejecting one of the occupants.
The person ejected was only identified as a 33-year-old woman who was a passenger in the vehicle. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Mendoza and the driver of the Jeep, Carlos Villanueva, 33, of Chaparral, New Mexico, were taken to University Medical Center with serious injuries.
The Special Traffic Investigators are conducting an investigation into the incident.
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