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When a DPS Trooper’s Patrol Vehicle Is in the Crash That Killed Someone You Love on US 67 You are reading this because someone in your family was killed on a Tuesday morning on US Highway 67, five miles east of Alpine, and the other vehicle was a Department of Public Safety Chevrolet Tahoe — a law enforcement patrol vehicle driven by a DPS trooper who was also hurt badly enough to be flown by helicopter to a hospital in El Paso, roughly 220 miles north. The driver of the blue GMC Sierra pickup truck — your father, your husband, your brother, your mother, your friend — was pronounced dead at the scene. DPS has released almost nothing. The agency’s own news release says the crash “remains under investigation by DPS,” and that no additional information is available. We need to talk about what that means — and what it does not mean. It means that the same agency whose employee was behind the wheel of the patrol vehicle that crossed paths with your loved one’s truck is the agency controlling the investigation, controlling the evidence, and controlling the narrative. That is not a criticism of individual investigators. It is…