Gonzales said he was driving along Altura and making a right hand turn when the piece fell onto his car. He wasn’t sure something had fell from the sky until a passerby pointed to the faux palm tree above him. The scariest part, perhaps, is that the branch was merely inches from his neck and other areas that could have caused more damage than the cuts to his face near his right eye.
While T-Mobile explained they do annual checks to their structures each March prior to El Paso’s windy season, the surprising part is that no outside entity enforces them to do so. According to CTIA, an association of wireless networks and companies, neither they nor the FCC regulate or track the upkeep of cell phone towers. That, according to member of CTIA, is the job of local governments which in this case El Paso does not according to a member of the engineering and construction management department with El Paso.
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