LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Two males had been killed in separate hit-and-run crashes Saturday evening in Las Vegas.
The primary crash occurred simply after 7:45 p.m. Saturday at McLeod and the Pecos-McLeod Interconnect in south Las Vegas.
An unidentified 64-year-old man utilizing what police described as a “personal mobility device” was struck whereas crossing McLeod Drive by a car in a crosswalk. Investigators consider the driving force fled the scene, touring north on the Pecos-McLeod Interconnect.
The person was taken to an space hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.
Later, simply after 8:30 p.m., a 67-year-old man was struck whereas crossing Boulder Freeway at Tropicana Avenue in a marked crosswalk. A compact car struck the person earlier than an unidentified car, believed by investigators to be a white Volkswagen Passat, drove over the person who was mendacity within the roadway.
That sufferer was pronounced useless on the scene of the collision.
The driving force of the compact car stopped and stayed on the scene, and didn’t present indicators of impairment. The Volkswagen driver, nevertheless, continued south on Boulder Freeway. Police offered a photograph of that car, which investigators consider would have injury to its decrease entrance bumper and undercarriage.
Picture of car concerned in a crash on Boulder Freeway at Tropicana Avenue offered by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division
Each crashes stay underneath investigation, and anybody with info on the lethal incidents is requested to contact the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division’s Collision Investigation Part at 702-828-4088. Moreover, these wishing to stay nameless can contact Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555 or through the group’s web site.
The lethal crashes symbolize the forty first and forty second traffic-related fatalities within the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division’s jurisdiction in 2025.
