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Metro Police respond to a fatal car accident on Desert Inn Road at 6 p.m. Wednesday. One pedestrian died and another is in critical condition after a man driving a Honda Accord lost control and ran onto the sidewalk.
Published Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009 | 8:38 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009 | 11:20 p.m.
Pedestrian fatality
Metro Police arrested a man on a drunken driving charge in the death of a pedestrian hit by a car while walking on a sidewalk Wednesday night on Desert Inn Road, just east of the Las Vegas Strip.
A second person also was struck and seriously injured, police said.
Mahmod Alseidamad, 25, of Las Vegas was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on a charge of driving under the influence with death.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office has not yet released the name of the 56-year-old man who was killed.
The other pedestrian was identified as Willard Hilborn, 60, of Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Alseidamad was allegedly speeding and changing lanes in a gray Honda Accord shortly before 5:30 p.m. when he lost control and ran onto the sidewalk in the 300 block of Desert Inn, in front of Blair House Suites, police said.
Metro Police Sgt. Oscar Chavez, of Metro’s fatal accident detail, said the car was traveling west on Desert Inn and the pedestrians were walking west on the north sidewalk with their backs to the car.
The pedestrian who was killed was pronounced dead at the scene, Chavez said. Hilborn was taken to University Medical Center with serious injuries, he said.
Alseidamad was also transported to a hospital, but the extent of his injuries were not known, Chavez said.
Dyan Dixon was working at the Blair House Suites front desk when someone rushed in and told her to call 911. Dixon said she ran outside and saw the car on the sidewalk and two men on the ground.
“One man was laying on his back and his eyes were open,” Dixon said. “He was trying to get up but everyone kept telling him not to move.”
Dixon said she saw another man in the bushes barely moving.
Chavez said Alseidamad got out of the car on his own.
another senseless tragedy.
Senseless acts by senseless people occur randomly all over this valley every day.
Living here is becoming as much of a gamble as going to the casinos. How do you like them odds?
"a man driving a gray Honda Accord was speeding west on Desert Inn"
What was so important for this guy to be speeding? He didn't make it to his destination any faster by breaking the law.
RIP to the innocent victim who was walking on the sidewalk.
Journey - the hard truth to you question is "not much." Mahmod will be free to get drunk in the middle-of-the-afternoon, and drive like a freaking piece of XYZ, sometime soon...maybe 3-5 years. Maybe next time, he can crush an 8 year old under the bumber of his vehicle!
The legal system in Nevada has turned a blind eye to automotive manslaughter/negligent homocide.
I don't know why anyone would walk ANYWHERE in this town - nowhere is safe from the drunks, the drug-addled, and the dangerous...
Aside from the meth epidemic, pedestrian deaths due to aggressive and impaired drivers is the #1 issue facing this community.
I can recall about a year ago I was waiting for the C.A.T bus at west-bound Spring Mountain at Valley View to head to work and could have sworn a week or so earlier when I was standing there that this stop had a canopy and bench where, at that time it was absent.
I looked around to make sure I wasn't dreamin' and sure enough, there were skid marks and bolt markings on the concrete where the canopy used to be.
What scared me more than anything was the fact that it was a week or less that elapsed from the time I had been there with canopy and the time I noticed it missing. Just a word to all the brave people that stand at the bus stops everyday....
Great, we got the Taliban on our streets now.