Two lanes shut down at Gateway South and Hondo Pass in Northeast El Paso after a crash called out shortly after 9:30 p.m. Monday, and transportation officials have classified it as critical. No further details about what happened, who was involved, or whether anyone was hurt have been released.
According to KTSM 9 News, the Texas Department of Transportation listed the crash as critical, but the outlet reported that no other details were available at the time of its story. The closure affects two lanes at the Northeast El Paso intersection, a corridor that has seen repeated traffic trouble in recent weeks.
A Rough Stretch for Hondo Pass Traffic
This is not the first time drivers near Hondo Pass have hit trouble this fall. An overturned vehicle closed the left lane on Gateway North at Hondo Pass northbound early one Wednesday morning, according to a report from kfoxtv.com. Just days before that, a crash involving a motorcycle and another vehicle shut down all lanes at Hondo Pass and US-54 north late on a Tuesday night, the same outlet reported.
Accounts of that motorcycle crash's aftermath have varied. One kfoxtv.com report said two people were transported to the hospital with serious injuries following the vehicle-motorcycle collision on U.S. 54 North near Hondo Pass, while another kfoxtv.com report on the same incident described one person transported with life-threatening injuries and a second person with minor injuries. Those discrepancies have not been resolved, and neither account applies to Monday night's separate crash at Gateway South.
Pattern of Closures Along Gateway South
Just weeks earlier, on Oct. 23, a crash closed the right and left turnaround lanes on Gateway South at Sean Haggerty, another report from the same outlet noted, though all lanes were reported reopened afterward. The repeated incidents underscore how frequently this stretch of Northeast El Paso roadway has drawn closures and delays in recent weeks.
El Paso’s Vision Zero action plan reports that more than 40% of the city’s most severe crashes occurred on state roadways. It identifies the Dyer Street segment from Sun Valley Drive to U.S. 54 among roadways with a high frequency of severe crashes; that finding is citywide context, not a designation of the Hondo Pass intersection. The plan’s roadway analysis calls for coordination between the city and TxDOT on safety measures.
The recent closures sit within a wider regional safety picture, though they do not establish a crash pattern at this specific intersection. The El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization’s five-year crash analysis identified U.S. 54 among corridors with crash hotspots.
No information has been released about the cause of Monday night's crash at Gateway South and Hondo Pass, the vehicles involved, or whether anyone was injured. It also remains unclear when the two closed lanes reopened to traffic. Drivers in the area should anticipate possible residual delays until further information is released.
