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Two people died in a car crash early Sunday morning in Rio Rancho, police said.
The driver and passenger of a 2008 Toyota died from injuries suffered in the 1:54 a.m. crash near the intersection of Unser and Southern boulevards, police said. The intersection was closed for several hours.
A 2002 Infiniti hit the Toyota on Southern Boulevard and the Toyota then struck a light pole, police said.
The driver and passenger of the Infiniti suffered minor injuries.
The names of the victims were not released.
Sandoval County Sheriff’s Sgt. Robert Baron remained in critical condition and on life support after he was struck by a car on icy Interstate 25 while investigating a weather-related crash near San Felipe Pueblo.
Baron, 47, remained in the neurological intensive care unit at the University of New Mexico Hospital where law enforcement officers from several agencies awaited word of his condition, a Sandoval County said.