LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A portion of Charleston Boulevard is shut down Monday evening as authorities work a wreck.
Around 1:30 p.m., officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to reports of a wreck on Charleston, east of Maryland Parkway.
Police said that a woman driving a moped tried to make an eastbound turn onto Charleston from a private drive.
During the turn, she didn't yield to the an oncoming dump truck towing a trailer, also traveling east. She hit the passenger side of the truck, and the force caused the moped to overturn and throw the woman onto the road.
Police said the woman was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The truck's driver stayed at the scene at showed no signs of impairment, police said.
As a cause of the wreck, a portion of Charleston was closed to traffic in both directions for several hours.
