A fatal incident on Interstate 10 brought Sunday evening traffic to a halt as a motorcyclist was pronounced dead following a crash in East-Central El Paso. As reported by El Paso Times, the accident occurred before the Airway Boulevard exit and east of the Bassett Place area.

The collision prompted a closure of all eastbound lanes on I-10, with snarled traffic extending back to Geronimo Drive, this disruption persisted well into the early hours, and lanes were finally reopened around 6 a.m. Monday as posted by authorities. The El Paso Police Department's Special Traffic Investigations Unit took to the site of the crash delving into the particulars of this tragic sequence, a closure that left many a traveler stalled and seeking alternate paths home or to destinations unknown or perhaps to familiar spaces made strange by the night’s grim work.

As detailed by KTSM, the crash took place shortly before 10 p.m., and the ensuing investigation by the Special Traffic Investigations Unit was swift to follow; they marked their presence at the scene around 10:30 p.m. The cause of the collision, and finer details of the event, the who, the why, and the how, remain unspoken chapters as the investigation proceeds.