Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
A 22-year-old Gallup man died Sunday evening in a three-vehicle crash east of Taiban in Roosevelt County.
According to a news release from New Mexico State Police:
A 2008 Ford Focus, driven by Terrell Christopher Ryan Daw, 22, of Gallup was traveling west on US Highway 60. For reasons unknown, the Focus crossed into the eastbound lanes of traffic. The Ford struck a 5th Wheel RV trailer that was being towed by a Ford F-250. The Focus continued to travel west in the eastbound lanes and struck a Chevrolet pickup head-on.
Daw sustained fatal injuries in the crash and died at the scene. The driver of the Ford F-250, a 49-year-old male of Sweetwater, Texas, was uninjured. The driver of the Chevrolet, a 23-year-old male and his passenger, a 23-year-old male, both from Portales, sustained injuries believed to be non-life threatening. The driver and passenger of the Chevrolet were transported by emergency personnel to the hospital in Clovis.
The wreck happened about 6:30 p.m.
