EARLY MORNING HEAD ON COLLISION RESULTS IN SERIOUS INJURIES / CHARGES PENDING
3850 Justice El Paso, TX 79938 
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Deputy Jesse Tovar / PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Direct: (915) 538-2119
Pager: (915) 533-0733 (#5370)
EMAIL: jtovar@epcounty.com
Release Date / Time: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:00 PM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office (STI’s)
EVENT: CAR ACCIDENT RESULTS IN SERIOUS INJURIES
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: 1600 block Horizon Blvd. near the intersection of Ellsworth El Paso County, TX
DATE / TIME: Friday, August 11, 2009 1:00 AM
RESULT: Accident Investigation continues
EL PASO COUNTY, TX- Early Friday morning 09-11-09 at about 1:00 AM, Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to the intersection of Ellsworth and Horizon in reference to a motor vehicle accident with injuries. Deputies arrived and found two vehicles on the roadway with heavy damage. The vehicles involved were a white 1991 Honda Accord and a 2004 gray Ford F150. Deputies made contact with the male driver (sole occupant) of the Ford pick up and found him not to be seriously injured but was highly intoxicated. The driver of the Honda suffered serious injuries & had to be extracted out of his vehicle by Horizon FD using the jaws of life. Both were transported by Life ambulance to University Medical Center. Special traffic Investigator’s STI’s were summoned to the scene.
Investigation by STI’s determined the white 1991 Honda Accord was traveling eastbound on Horizon while the 2004 gray Ford F150 was traveling west. The driver of the Ford F150 crossed onto the eastbound lanes crashing head-on with the white Accord. Although the driver of the white Accord attempted to steer out of the collision at the last minute, the crash was head on. The driver of the white Accord sustained serious bodily injuries to his legs while the driver of the Ford F 150 only sustained minor injuries. The driver of the Ford F 150 was intoxicated at the time of the crash, therefore INTOXICATION ASSAULT charges are pending.
Horizon blvd. was closed approximately 3 hours. Drivers were identified as Martin Martinez of Horizon who was driving the white 1991 Honda Accord. He remains at a local the hospital with two broken legs, as well as a broken hip. The driver at fault operating the 2004 gray Ford F150 was identified as Gabriel Garay of Sparks. He also remains at the hospital and is facing INTOXICATION ASSAULT charges.
(PHOTOS OF ACCIDENT COURTESY EPCSO)
STI’s ARE CONTINUING WITH THE INVESTIGATION.
ALCOHOL IS A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR IN THIS ACCIDENT.
TOXICOLOGY REPORTS ARE PENDING.
NO OTHER INFORNATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.
END OF NEWS RELEASE
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.