LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A juvenile is dead after running a red light and colliding with a police vehicle in the southeastern Las Vegas valley on Monday evening, police say.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the collision occurred at approximately 6:19 p.m. at the intersection of South Boulder Highway and East Flamingo Road.
Evidence at the scene, witness statements, and surveillance video indicated that a marked LVMPD Patrol Vehicle was stopped, facing southbound on Boulder Highway, north of Flamingo Road, for a red traffic signal in the left travel lane of three. After the traffic signal turned green, the patrol vehicle entered the intersection, traveling southbound. A Buick LeSabre was traveling westbound on Flamingo Road, east of Boulder Highway, in the right travel lane of two, and failed to obey the red traffic signal and entered the intersection.
Police say the front of the Buick collided with the front left of the patrol vehicle.
Medical personnel transported the driver of the Buick to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, where he would later be pronounced deceased by medical staff. The driver of the patrol vehicle was transported to UMC Trauma with minor injuries.
The Buick driver’s death marked the 95th traffic-related fatality in LVMPD’s jurisdiction for 2023.
The collision remains under investigation by the Nevada State Police Highway Patrol’s Collision Investigation Section.
