Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Six killed in weekend traffic accidents

The traffic death toll in the valley continued to climb through the weekend with at least six people killed in the last four days.

As of this morning, 109 people have been killed in Las Vegas and unincorporated Clark County.

The most recent fatality was just before 8 p.m. Sunday when a man driving a Corvette the wrong way down Las Vegas Boulevard near Nellis Boulevard hit a pickup truck head-on.

The driver, whose name was not released this morning, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the 1992 Chevrolet Silverado, 29-year-old Enrique Real of Las Vegas, suffered moderate injuries, Metro Police said.

A 46-year-old Las Vegas man driving a 2001 Harley-Davidson motorcycle was killed about 12:50 a.m. Sunday while apparently "horsing around" with another motorcycle south on Torrey Pines Drive.

James Longhurst crossed into an intersection at Spring Mountain Road and collided with the right side of a 2000 Saturn, driven by Alberto Bruno-Martinez, 26, of Las Vegas.

Martinez was unable to stop his car before running over Longhurst, police said. Longhurst was pronounced dead at the scene.

Saturday morning, a man and woman were killed in a hit-and-run near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The two were walking east on a sidewalk alongside Flamingo Road at Cambridge Street at about 10:15 a.m. when a 1997 Acura rear-ended a 1993 Chevrolet Cavalier, causing the Chevrolet to rotate clockwise and jump the curb, police said.

The driver of the Acura kept going and the Chevrolet, driven by 18-year-old Zaida Limbag of Las Vegas collided with the two pedestrians and then continued sideways into a wash, landing on its roof, police said.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The woman and Limbag were taken to University Medical Center, where the female pedestrian was pronounced dead, police said.

Limbag was treated for minor injuries and released. The names of the man and woman were not released this morning.

Police are looking for a white 1997 Acura 2-door hatchback with Illinois license plate 5073307, and anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555 or Detective Dennis Magill at 229-3317.

On Thursday afternoon, two people died in separate rollover accidents on rain-soaked Blue Diamond Highway.

Jamie Quoss, 31, of Pahrump, was driving with her husband north on the highway, 23 miles west of Las Vegas, at about 3 p.m. when she lost control of her Honda, Nevada Highway Patrol said.

Neither she nor her husband, John Quoss, 33, wore seat belts, according to the Highway Patrol. John Quoss was thrown from the car and died. Jamie Quoss was taken to University Medical Center with serious injuries.

She told troopers that she was lighting a cigarette when she became distracted, drifted, and over-corrected, Trooper Loy Hixson said.

Twenty minutes later a 1994 Chevy Blazer traveling the opposite direction from farther down the same road also rolled, the statement from the Highway Patrol noted. The driver, Stacie Lynn Gittelman, 39, of Pahrump, died at the scene of the crash, about 12 miles west of Las Vegas.

Hixson said it was only coincidental that the accidents occurred within miles and minutes of one another. He said driver inattention and speed were more to blame than wet roads.

The number of traffic fatalities handled by the Highway Patrol this year was not available this morning.

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