ONE DEAD AND ONE IN CRITICAL CONDITION FROM ACCIDENT IN BETWEEN CLOVIS AND MELROSE
CLOVIS (KSMX)-According to the Curry County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to the wreck at about 4:45 a.m. It happened at milepost 369 on US 60/84.
The investigation has determined that a 2000 Freightliner tractor with trailer, driven by 61-year-old Pedro Renteria of Albuquerque, was traveling west collided with a 1997 Peterbilt tractor, driven by 31-year-old Cutter Roberts of Melrose, with trailer traveling east as they passed in opposite directions in the area of milepost 369.
Renteria died on scene from injuries sustained in the crash and his passenger, 32-year-old Juan Luis Renteria Reyes of Albuquerque, was airlifted to a medical facility in Lubbock with critical injuries.
Roberts and passenger 53-year-old Larry Tatum of Cuervo, N.M. were not injured in the crash.
Curry County deputies are still investigating the cause of the crash.
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