The Texas Tech Police Department on Monday provided an update on the investigation into a deadly single-vehicle crash early Friday on the Tech campus.
Officers responded at 1:23 a.m. Friday to a report of a collision in the 1500 block of Knoxville Avenue, according to a Tech news release.
Upon arrival, officers located a single male occupant in the driver’s seat of the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency medical personnel. The driver has been identified as 21-year-old Anthony Cruz, who was not a student at the university.
Based on the preliminary investigation, Cruz was traveling westbound on Knoxville Avenue at a high rate of speed when the vehicle struck a reinforced brick wall surrounding a dumpster enclosure on the northeast side of the Texas Tech University System Administration Building.
Other factors contributing to the crash were not immediately clear as the investigation is ongoing.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech police ID man killed in crash on campus
Reporting by Adam D. Young, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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