Luis Chavez Injured in NE El Paso Two-Vehicle Crash on Tetons Drive

El Paso, Texas – One person was killed and another was injured earlier this month in a head-on collision in Northeast El Paso, according to the police. 

The fatal crash happened on January 8, in the 5000 block of Tetons Drive.

Police said 51-year-old Amador Yamil Garcia was driving a 1999 Toyota Camry eastbound when he veered left onto the westbound lanes, for unknown reasons, and crashed head-on into a Chrysler Voyager.

Garcia was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he later died.

The Chrysler driver, Luis Alfonso Chavez, 69, of Northeast El Paso, sustained minor injuries in the crash.

The crash remains under investigation.

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