Fatal Crash on I-40

STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS ON I-40 IN ALBUQUERQUE THAT RESULTED IN A FATALITY EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. SPOKESMAN RAY WILSON SAYS TOW TRUCK DRIVER PAT CISNEROS WAS KILLED WHEN HE WAS HIT BY A SEMI AS HE STOPPED TO HELP AN OFFICER WHO’D BEEN INVOLVED IN AN EARLIER ACCIDENT IN THE EASTBOUND LANES.
WILSON SAYS THE 50-YEAR OLD CISNEROS WORKED FOR MADRID TOWING. SIX VEHICLES, INCLUDING FOUR SEMI’S, WERE INVOLVED IN THE CRASH, WHICH OCCURRED WEST OF THE BIG-I.

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