UPDATE: FATAL HEAD-ON COLLISION IN HORIZON CITY / VICTIMS IDENTIFIED
3850 Justice Dr. El Paso, Texas 79938 
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Contact: Deputy Jesse Tovar / PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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Release Date / Time: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 5:50 AM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office – LOWER VALLEY PATROL / SPECIAL TRAFFIC INVESTIGATORS (STI)
EVENT: FATAL HEAD-ON COLLISION IN HORIZON CITY / VICTIM IDENTIFIED
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: EASTLAKE / MYSTIC DESERT EL PASO COUNTY, TX
DATE / TIME: Monday, June 8, 2009 3:25 AM
RESULT: VICTIMS IDENTIFIED
EAST EL PASO COUNTY, TX– Early Monday morning June 8, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Sheriff’s Deputies along with the Horizon Police Dept. responded to a two vehicle accident with serious injuries on Eastlake Blvd. near the area where Eastlake intersects with Mystic Desert. Authorities arrived to find a 1999 Silver Ford Mustang & a 2001 Red GMC pick-up truck with extensive damage. Authorities rapidly tended to the injured to find both vehicles with single occupants (female drivers). The 28 year-old driver of the Ford Mustang was found unresponsive with no signs of life. The 49 year-old driver of the GMC pick-up was found with serious leg injuries. She was transported to Thomason Hospital by Life Ambulance. Special Traffic Investigators were summoned to the scene.
After an extensive investigation, STI’s determined the Ford Mustang was traveling eastbound on Eastlake at a high rate of speed where the driver then lost control, crossed over the dirt median into the westbound lanes of traffic violently colliding head-on with the GMC pick-up which was traveling westbound on Eastlake. The impact resulted in the GMC veering off into the right desert shoulder facing westbound.
Eastlake Blvd. was closed for several hours.
UPDATE: The deceased (driver of the Ford Mustang) has been identified as 28 year-old Lourdes Lopez of the 15000 block of Peter Noyes Dr. Horizon City, TX. She leaves behind 4 children ages; 11, 9, 6 & a toddler.
The driver of the GMC pick-up is identified as 49 year-old Socorro Hernandez of the 13900 block of Zeny Web Horizon, City TX. She suffered a laceration to her knee & a broken ankle.
AT THIS TIME SPEED AND ALCOHOL APPEAR TO BE FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT.
AN AUTOPSY IS SCHEDULED FOR TODAY 06-09-09. TOXICOLOGY RESULTS ARE PENDING.
NO OTHER INFORMATION IS BEING RELEASED AT THIS TIME
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The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office in March of 2001 was the first Sheriff’s Office in the State of Texas to be Internationally Accredited from CALEA and is now the recipient of the First CALEA Tri-Arc award in Texas (4th in the Nation) to have accreditations in: Law Enforcement, Communications, Training Academy.