El Paso, TX : 4-year-old girl injured in chain-reaction crash on Loop 375 in far East El Paso on Monday, January 30, 2017

A 4-year-old girl was seriously injured Monday when the car that she was riding in was hit from behind in a chain-reaction crash on Loop 375 in far East El Paso, police said Tuesday.

Emily Marquez was hospitalized at University Medical Center of El Paso after being injured in a crash at about 8:15 p.m. in the northbound lanes of Loop 375 near Vista Del Sol Drive, police said. Emily was in a Honda Civic driven by Gabriel Marquez, 22, who was taken to Del Sol Medical Center with minor injuries.

The Honda was in the right lane followed by a Ford Mustang and a Chevrolet Avalanche, police said.

Traffic slowed down because of a road closure, which caused the Civic to slow and the Mustang to brake suddenly and swerve into the right emergency lane to avoid hitting the Civic, police said. The Avalanche was unable to stop in time and hit the back of the Civic, which then pushed the Civic into the Mustang in the emergency lane.

No injuries were reported for the Avalanche's driver, Claudia Valenzuela, 31, and the Mustang's driver, Uriel Suarez, 24, police said.

Police said that failure to control speed was a factor in the accident, which is under investigation by the police Special Traffic Investigations Unit.

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4-year-old girl injured in chain-reaction crash