2 YEAR-OLD UNSCATHED AFTER BEING EJECTED IN SUV ROLL-OVER ACCIDENT IN VINTON, TX

RELEASE DATE / TIME : 08-18-10 2:55 pm

EL PASO COUNTY, TX- Early this Wednesday morning August 18, 2010 at 11:15 am, Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the area of I-10 East Mile Marker 2 to a single vehicle roll-over with injuries. Deputies arrived on scene to discover a 2 year-old female child was ejected.

Further investigation revealed a 1998 Gold Ford Explorer driven by a 35 year-old female was traveling east on I-10 approaching mile post 2 when the right rear tire tread became unraveled causing the driver to veer right & over correct left impacting with the median guideline wires. At that instance the Ford explorer rolled (how many times yet to be determined) where a 2 year-old female child who was seating in her child seat (unknown if unrestrained) was ejected about 10 feet as the vehicle came to a rest facing west near the eastbound lanes of traffic.

The Ford Explorer was also occupied by a 39 year-old female front passenger & a 20 year-old male rear passenger. All occupants were transported by ambulance to University Medical Center for further treatment. All occupants were identified as follows:

Driver: Eulalia Macias (35) suffered serious injury (severe laceration to neck & arm)

Front Passenger: Ernestina Macias (39) – non-life threatening injuries

Rear Passenger: Santiago Gutierrez (20) – non-life threatening injuries

Child - Rear Passenger: Melanie Macias (2) – non-life threatening injuries / birthday was yesterday 08/17.

Investigation continues.

Photos Courtesy EPCSO

  The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office in March of 2001 was the first Sheriff’s Office in   the State of Texas to be Internationally Accredited from CALEA and is now the recipient of the First CALEA Tri-Arc award in Texas (4^th in the Nation) to have accreditations in: Law Enforcement, Communications, Training Academy.