EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 17-year-old was killed in a single-vehicle crash early Monday morning, Nov. 18 when he lost control and crashed into a traffic signal pole in the Lower Valley, El Paso Police said.
Saul Adrian Bustillos, 17, was killed in a crash that happened just before 3:30 a.m. Monday at the intersection of Alameda and Riverside.
Police said Bustillos was driving along Alameda at a “high rate of speed,” when he went through some standing water and lost control.
His vehicle then collided with a traffic signal pole at the intersection of Alameda and Riverside.
Three other people were injured in the crash. The injured ranged in age from 16 to 20.
Speed and wet road conditons contributed to the crash, police said.
This is the 62nd traffic fatality of the year in the El Paso city limits, compared to 71 at the same time last year.
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