EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 15-year-old girl is dead following a crash that happened in East El Paso last week, according to the El Paso Police Department.
As KTSM previously reported, the two-vehicle crash happened after 11 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, on Interstate 10 after Lee Trevino. The Special Traffic Investigators unit was called to investigate.
4 injured after crash on I-10 East at Lee Trevino
Preliminary information revealed that an SUV was traveling east on I-10 when a Mustang, who was also traveling east, rear-ended the SUV “at a high-rate of speed,” according to EPPD.
As a result, 15-year-old Sophia Elize Ramirez was ejected from the vehicle and sustained life-threatening injuries. There were four other people in the SUV with Ramirez, including the 33-year-old driver, a 36-year-old woman, a one-year-old boy and a baby girl.
On Thursday, March 19, the STI was notified by the Medical Examiner’s Office that Ramirez had died as a result of the crash…