Two killed in accidents on Lake Mead roads

Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005 | 9:30 a.m.

A motorcyclist and an SUV driver were killed in separate accidents at Lake Mead on Wednesday, a National Park Service spokeswoman said.

A Mesquite man riding with five other motorcyclists on Northshore Drive between Overton and Callville Bay crashed, Park Service spokeswoman Roxanne Dey said, in a place where the two-lane road curves and dips.

Park rangers received a call at 11:20 a.m. Wednesday and shortly after found other motorcyclists doing CPR on their companion, Dey said.

Rangers worked on the man for more than an hour in an attempt to revive him, but he was pronounced dead, she said.

The name of the victim is being withheld until his family is notified.

About 1 p.m. park rangers received a call about a column of black smoke. Someone thought the Las Vegas Wash was on fire, Dey said.

When rangers arrived at the scene on Lakeshore Drive between the fish hatchery and Las Vegas Bay, they found an SUV off the road engulfed in flames.

It took Park Service firefighters until 1:30 p.m. to extinguish the fire, Dey said.

The SUV appeared to have one person inside, but the body and the SUV were burned beyond recognition.

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