The boy, identified as Ismael Torres from Santa Cruz, California, appeared to have been thrown from the vehicle as it rolled.
The accident occurred on Interstate 10 near mile marker 53 – just across the Luna-Grant County line – at just after 11 p.m. Saturday.
The driver of the 2001 Ford Excursion, 49-year-old Rosalio Torres, said a driver cut him off and he lost control of the vehicle, causing it to go off the roadway and roll.
There were five people in the Excursion at the time of the accident.One had to be extracted from the wreckage using the “jaws of life.” Several were flown by helicopter to El Paso for treatment of injuries sustained in the rollover. It was not immediately known whether those injuries were
life-threatening.