LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A truck driver died Tuesday when a tractor-trailer rig ran off the street and right into a constructing in Dying Valley Nationwide Park, officers mentioned on Wednesday.
The only-vehicle crash scattered particles and left diesel gas on CA-190 between Stovepipe Wells and Towne Go, closing the principle street via the park for about 22 hours. The street reopened at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
The wreckage of a tractor-trailer rig is proven after a crash that killed a driver on Tuesday at Dying Valley Nationwide Park. (Picture: Nationwide Park Service)
The crash was doubtless brought on by a brake malfunction, officers mentioned. CA-190 has lengthy, steep grades on each side of Towne Go, and truck fires have been an issue lately. {An electrical} contractor truck burned after descending Towne Go on April 9. Six industrial vehicles and one fifth-wheel RV caught on hearth beneath Towne Go in 2024.
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The truck collided with the historic stone Emigrant Ranger Station, constructed within the Thirties by the Civilian Conservation Corps. It hit the constructing’s porch, destroying two stone columns, damaging the roof and breaking home windows, park officers mentioned.
Harm to the Emigrant Ranger Station after a tractor-trailer crashed into the constructing on Tuesday in Dying Valley Nationwide Park. The truck driver died within the crash. (Picture: Nationwide Park Service)
Stan Jones wrote the track “Ghost Riders in the Sky” whereas residing within the constructing and dealing as a park ranger in 1947, officers mentioned. The constructing hasn’t been used for a number of a long time.
A hazmat group labored in a single day to scrub up the spill. The truck was carrying a load from a mine within the Searles Valley
