EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 19-year-old man has died, and an 18-year-old girl was injured after they were ejected from a rollover crash late Friday night, Oct. 10, in Hudspeth County, according to Texas DPS.
DPS says that at around 11 p.m. that Friday, Jonathon Forbus, 19, of Livingston, Texas, and an 18-year-old girl, also from Livingston, were traveling in a vehicle on I-10 West three miles west of Van Horn.
The preliminary information revealed that the vehicle was traveling in the right lane of I-10 West and the driver, Forbus, failed to drive in a single lane. The vehicle then exited northwest off the roadway and rolled over several times before coming to a rest.
Forbus and the passenger, the 18-year-old girl, were ejected from the vehicle as they were not wearing their seatbelts, DPS said.
Forbus died at the scene, and the 18-year-old girl suffered serious injuries and was taken to a local hospital in El Paso.
No further information has been released. The crash remains under investigation, DPS said.
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