Motorcycle Accident – Horizon City
October 12, 2021
El Paso, Texas – On October 12, 2021, at about 7:00 am, El Paso County Sheriff's Office Patrol units were dispatched to the 1200 block of Zapata in reference to a motorcycle accident. Deputies assigned to the Sheriff’s Office Special Traffic investigations section responded and determined that the rider of the off-road dirt bike was not wearing a helmet and had crashed into a rock wall resulting in fatal injuries. The rider has been identified as 32-year-old Eric Estevez from Horizon City Texas.
The Sheriff’s Office would like to encourage motorcycle riders to wear a helmet and to never operate off-road motorcycles and ATV’s on roadways.