LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Amy Loafea noticed the Las Vegas skyline as she reached the tip of her 300-mile journey, however after a loud bang, her arm started to stream with blood—it wasn’t a gunshot.
On Sunday, Nevada State Police responded to calls from injured drivers alongside the I-11 close to the Wagon Wheel Drive exit. The rocks hit at the very least 4 automobiles and inflicting average to extreme injury, in response to police.
“I felt something, and blood was going everywhere,” Loafea mentioned. “I initially thought I was gunshot.”
Loafea was driving again from visiting her daughter in Arizona, a visit she has finished earlier than, and initially thought the damage she sustained got here from a passing truck driver.
“I remember saying to myself, that’s the truck, they shot you,” she mentioned.
After calling 911, she lay within the gravel alongside the freeway and referred to as members of the family, telling them what they wanted to know if she didn’t survive her accidents. Loafea, earlier than she was taken to Dawn Hospital, noticed the opening in her windshield and realized it wasn’t a gunshot.
“I recall looking down at the floorboard the passenger side, and the boulder was laying on the floor,” she mentioned. “I’m thinking it fell from the mountain top and just freak accident.”
Nevada State Police are investigating the incident and in search of a suspect who probably threw the rocks from a close-by pedestrian bridge.
A niche within the bridge
Loafea mentioned after leaving the hospital she has grow to be annoyed with how such an incident is feasible—pointing to a niche within the pedestrian bridge.
“Why is it okay that someone could physically, even have the ability to throw anything,” she mentioned.
8 Information Now visited the pedestrian bridge off Dawson Avenue, which does have gaps over the freeway. Loafea mentioned she hopes extra fencing is positioned to maintain the 1000’s of drivers under safer from rocks or different objects thrown.
The incident has additionally left Loafea in a maze of paperwork, a $662 price to get better her automobile, and a number of cellphone calls with insurance coverage corporations whom she mentioned haven’t made the method of restoration any simpler.
“This wasn’t just caused by a mistake I made, or something that, I’m paying the price,” she mentioned. “Someone did this to me, they made a choice.”
Two drivers have been taken to the hospital with critical accidents Sunday night time. The suspects left the scene earlier than officers arrived, in response to police.
Police are asking anybody with info to contact 702-668-3261.
