Fatal accidents

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers responded two separate fatality accidents this weekend in West Texas.

A 45-year-old El Paso commercial loan broker was killed Saturday evening in a motorcycle accident about 12 miles east of Redford in Presidio County.

Raymond Vargas was pronounced dead at 7:10 p.m. Saturday at the scene by Presidio County Justice of the Peace Daniel Bodine.

According to DPS Trooper D.J. Pearson's report, Vargas was driving about 5:45 p.m. Saturday west on FM 170, coming upon a reduced speed zone at a right-hand curve. Witnesses told troopers that Vargas braked, locking his wheels, lost control of the 2006 Harley-Davidson motorcycle he was riding and was thrown from the bike into a guardrail.

A day earlier about 17 miles west of Fort Stockton, a 77-year-old El Paso woman was killed and two other people were injured in a one-vehicle accident on Interstate 10.

Maria Alamo delPilar was pronounced dead at 4:06 p.m. Friday at Pecos County Memorial Hospital.

According to DPS Trooper Edward Prieto's report, Ignacio Alamo, 74, and Martha Alamo Catalina, 42, were both injured in that accident and taken to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. Catalina was listed in critical condition with head injuries, and Alamo was listed in stable condition with broken ribs and ankles, the report said.

Prieto reported that Alamo was driving a 2001 Ford Explorer sports utility vehicle east on Interstate 10, when he had a tire blow out. According to the report, Alamo overcorrected to the right, sending the vehicle into a left-side skid across the roadway into a barrow ditch, where it rolled onto its passenger side. The vehicle came to rest upright facing northwest in the southside bar ditch