Six die in crashes over the weekend

Monday, June 29, 1998 | 4:33 a.m.

Six people died in area car wrecks over the weekend.

The latest victim was a woman killed Sunday afternoon when the car in which she was a passenger left a two-lane gravel road in the area of Mount Charleston and rolled 152 feet down the side of the mountain.

A 1996 Chevrolet Corsica driven by 18-year-old Latoyna Wilson of North Las Vegas was westbound on Harris Springs Road in Kyle Canyon when the vehicle went out of control shortly after 2 p.m., Metro Police Detective William Redfairn said.

The passenger, whose name is being withheld pending notification of relatives, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Wilson and two other passengers, Monique Traylor, 16, and Kentabius Traylor, 3, were taken to University Medical Center. Both Traylors remain in serious condition while Wilson was treated and released.

Andrea Gonzales, 17, and 21-year-old Anna Herrarte also were killed Sunday in a three-car accident in the 3500 block of West Carey Avenue.

According to investigators with the North Las Vegas Police Department, at about 1:30 a.m. a 1991 Saturn and a white Ford Explorer were eastbound on Carey.

People in the two cars were talking to each other, Redfrain said.

The Saturn left the road and the driver over-compensated and struck the Explorer, causing the Explorer to lose control and flip over on its roof and hit a cement power pole.

The Saturn continued traveling eastbound, striking a Ford Ranger pickup. The pickup then turned over onto its roof, ejecting a female and her 7-year-old daughter.

Three of the five occupants of the Ford Explorer were ejected from the vehicle. Gonzales and Herrarte remained in the vehicle, which struck a cement post.

Investigators said 10 people were involved in the accident but declined to identify them.

On Friday at about 6:30 p.m. a woman died after a two-vehicle traffic accident at Desert Inn Road and Fort Apache Road.

According to police, a 30-year-old female Las Vegas resident was a passenger in a 1997 Saturn that stopped at the four-way stop.

The driver of the Saturn then proceeded through the intersection, according to police reports, and was struck on the right side.

Also, shortly after midnight Saturday, a Metro Police officer en route to back up another officer on an emergency call was involved in a fatal collision.

The officer reportedly was southbound in the northbound lane on Industrial Road, his lights and sirens on, when he collided with a man riding a motorcycle who was killed in the crash.