LUBBOCK, Texas–The Lubbock Police Department’s Major Crash Unit is investigating a Central Lubbock single vehicle collision that left 20-year-old Gustavo Portillo with injuries.
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Officers responded to a report of a collision with injuries in the 5700 block of Marsha Sharp Freeway eastbound access road at 1:01 a.m. on May 23.
Upon arrival, officers found the sole occupant, trapped inside a pickup. Portillo was extracted from the vehicle. He was transported by ambulance to University Medical Center with serious injuries.
Through the initial course of investigation, it appears, Portillo was traveling east at a high rate of speed in the 5700 block of Marsha Sharp Freeway access road before striking a curb, traveling through a grassy median and colliding with a pillar…