LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A 27-year-old girl faces a number of expenses together with reckless driving after police mentioned she didn’t cease for the cease indicators on a faculty bus, hitting and injuring a teen.
The hit-and-run crash occurred on Wednesday, Aug. 20 round 4:22 p.m. within the southeast valley.
Police mentioned the 13-year-old exited a faculty bus and was crossing on the intersection of Amigo Road and Abbeyfield Rose Drive close to St. Rose Parkway when he was hit by a driver recognized as Yarla Valeriano-Perez.
Proof on the scene, together with dashcam video and witness statements revealed that the Clark County Faculty bus was stopped with its pink flashing cease indicators when the teenager exited the bus, and was hit by a gray sedan, in accordance with the Las Vegas Metro police arrest report.
The teenager was thrown onto Valeriano-Perez’s windshield after which onto the roadway within the northbound journey lanes. Valeriano-Perez continued northbound on Amigo Road, “fleeing the collision scene,” police mentioned.
Officers additionally mentioned that Valeriano-Perez by no means stopped to render assist to the teenager or name police following the crash.
In the course of the investigation, police additionally interviewed a number of witnesses together with one who advised them that the teenager “appeared to be 8 feet in the air” after the automobile hit him, in accordance with the report.
Police mentioned the 13-year-old exited a faculty bus and was crossing on the intersection of Amigo Road and Abbeyfield Rose Drive close to St. Rose Parkway when he was hit by a driver recognized as Yarla Valeriano-Perez. (KLAS)
The feminine passenger within the automotive with Valeriano-Perez on the time of the crash returned to the scene to talk with officers later that day, in accordance with the report.
Throughout her interview with police, officers realized that the 2 ladies had been headed to the South Level On line casino when the feminine passenger mentioned she heard the affect and felt the automobile’s “windshield glass hit her.” She seemed up and assumed an individual had been hit. The lady referred to Valeriano-Perez as “V” within the police interview.
“V continued driving and eventually pulled over” to let her out of the automobile, police famous within the report. The lady advised police, Valeriano-Perez dropped her off at an unknown deal with so she may cost her telephone after which left. After her telephone was charged, the feminine passenger returned to the scene as a result of it was “the right thing to do,” in accordance with the report. The lady then gave police Valeriano-Perez’s telephone quantity and Instagram account info.
As officers had been making ready to depart the crash scene, Valeriano-Perez pulled up in one other automobile and recognized herself as the driving force concerned within the crash. She advised police she was giving a good friend a trip when “out of nowhere, a kid ran across the road,” she mentioned she tried to cease, but it surely was “too late,” and the teenager was “already on her windshield,” in accordance with the report. She continued by telling police that she turned “scared, and paranoid, so she drove away.”
Valeriano-Perez additionally advised police she realized she should not have pushed away however she was “scared,” in accordance with the report. She additionally mentioned that after hanging the teenager, she continued driving a distance away when her good friend within the passenger seat “begged” her to let her out of the automotive. Valeriano-Perez pulled over and let her good friend out of the automotive. She then drove to the parking zone throughout the road from the South Level On line casino and parked, in accordance with the report.
Valeriano-Perez then referred to as her aunt and uncle to inform them about what occurred and requested if they’d come choose her up.
Officers later noticed the deserted automobile concerned within the crash with “major windshield damage” close to the South Level On line casino, in accordance with the report. Police additionally decided the automobile matched the outline of the automobile noticed in a splash digital camera video earlier that day.
Valeriano-Perez, was arrested by police on the crash website round 9:20 p.m., she faces the next expenses:
Responsibility to cease at scene of a crash
Reckless driving leading to substantial bodily hurt
Overtaking or passing stopped faculty bus with sign
Police mentioned she didn’t present any indicators of impairment.
The teenager who was hit was taken to UMC and had a damaged and displaced shoulder, which wanted surgical procedure, a damaged arm, a sprained knee and ankle, and extreme street rash to his leg and again, in accordance with the report.
Valeriano-Perez is because of make an preliminary look within the Las Vegas Justice Courtroom on Thursday.
