APD: Alcohol may be to blame in crash

2 adults killed, 2 kids hurt in rollover

Investigators suspect alcohol may have been involved in a crash in which a woman swerved into a semi-trailer truck and then veered back into her own lane, causing her SUV to roll over several times, killing her and a passenger, and injuring their two small children, according to a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department.

Officer Fred Duran said the crash ejected Stacey Leon and Henry Lukee, who died on the scene. Two young children in the backseat were injured — one critically.

The group is from Acoma, Duran said, and the children’s last names are Lukee. He didn’t know their gender.

Duran said that, around 2:45 a.m. Sunday, police were called to the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 for the roll-over that ejected the occupants of the vehicle.

“A caller who was one of the citizens who stopped to help located a 3-year-old child who was in the vehicle and a 6-yearold child who was crawling out of the wreckage,” Duran said.

The 3-year-old was severely injured and remains in hospital, Duran said. The 6-year-old suffered minor injuries.

He said investigators determined Leon had veered into the lane to her right, striking a truck with a trailer. He said she swerved back to the left and then over-corrected back to the right, causing the SUV to roll over several times.

“Both Leon and Lukee were not wearing seat belts and alcohol is a possible contributing factor as empty alcohol containers were located in the vehicle, as well in the debris from the crash,” Duran said.