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Three Deadly Crashes All On Sunday Morning

December 3, 2007

There were three deadly car accidents that happened on Sunday morning on the Southern part of Las Vegas. The authorities are suspecting alcohol or drugs could have been a factor in all three crashes.

The first crash happened at 3:30 a.m. on Interstate 15. Kevin Honea, who is a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper, said that the accident occurred three miles south of Sloan.

A man was driving a Nissan pickup north when he drifted into another lane then struck the back of a GMC Sonoma pickup and then the Nissan hit the center median wall.

The man who was driving the Nissan was not wearing a seatbelt so he was thrown from his vehicle and he was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. There were two people in the GMC Sonoma but they were not injured.

The second fatal crash was at about 7:30 a.m. only four hours later than the first accident and it was just south of the first crash.

The authorities had closed two out of three northbound lanes down on Interstate 15 because of the first accident that had happened earlier that morning but a man driving a Ford SVT Focus approached the slowed traffic at a speed that was too fast.

The man that was driving the Ford tried to drive around a Honda sedan but instead hit an outside median. Then the driver of the Ford hit the Honda on its passenger side and then the Honda got pushed into a parked Nevada Department of Transportation truck.

The man who was driving the Honda, who was also 80 years old, was pronounced dead and his female passenger was airlifted to University Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. Also, the driver of the Nevada Department of Transportation truck was taken to University Medical Center with minor injuries.

The driver of the Ford decided to drive away from the crash, he was heading southbound in the northbound lanes said Honea. Troopers finally stopped him about five miles away from the crash and booked him into the county jail.

Then about two hours later at roughly 9:30 a.m. a man in his 20s driving a Chevrolet Trailblazer lost control of his vehicle on U.S. Highway 95 at Ann Road.

The Trailblazer hit the guardrail and then started to roll down the embankment between Ann and U.S. Highway 95. Once again the driver of the Trailblazer was not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from his vehicle. The man was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.

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