Wednesday, March 19, 2008 | 6:17 p.m.
A construction crane toppled from a flatbed truck at one of the busiest intersections on the Las Vegas Strip at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Metro Police traffic officers responded to the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard South and Sahara Avenue where the truck, making a left-hand turn onto westbound Sahara, lost its load, tying up traffic and the intersection.
A crane toppled off a flatbed truck turning westbound onto Sahara Avenue from Las Vegas Boulevard South at about 1:30 p.m. today.
It was part of a triple whammy on the Las Vegas Strip in the past 24 hours.
The accident occured at the same time the Las Vegas Valley Water District was restoring water service to 5,000 hotel rooms after repairing a broken water line on Paradise Road. Metro Police traffic officers arrived at the scene of the Strip wreck just as water was restored to the Las Vegas Hilton, Turnberry Towers and part of the Riviera Hotel.
Water crews were doing some maintenance work on the pipeline at Paradise Road about 7 a.m. when the pipeline failed.
Overnight Nevada Power Company crews restored electricity to the Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Excalibur and Four Seasons Hotel after a transformer failed on Harmon Avenue about 8 p.m., said Clark County Fire Department spokesman Scott Allison. Casinos continued operating on backup generators, Allison said. Firefighters and hotel engineers escorted people trapped in elevators to safety. No one was injured, he said.
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