CAT van damaged in Henderson wreck

Jeremy Twitchell

A Citizens Area Transit special services van was damaged in an accident this afternoon at Green Valley Parkway near Corporate Circle.

By Jeremy Twitchell (contact)

Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 4:22 p.m.

Jeremy Twitchell

Henderson Police investigate inside a Citizens Area Transit special services van that was damaged in an accident.

CAT van damaged

Henderson Police are investigating an accident involving a Citizens Area Transit special services van that occurred this afternoon shortly after 3 p.m. at Green Valley Parkway near Corporate Circle.

The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known, but the CAT van was damaged on the front passenger side and was incapacitated. Two other vans arrived to carry passengers away.

Allison Blankenship, a spokeswoman for the Regional Transportation Commission, which operates CAT, said the cause is under investigation.

Blankenship said the driver of the van suffered minor injuries and was transported to a hospital for treatment. The van’s five passengers were not harmed.

The northbound side of Green Valley Parkway was briefly closed to one lane while officers investigated and firefighters cleaned up the accident site.

All lanes of travel except the left turn lane onto Corporate Circle, where the van was resting, were reopened by 3:20 p.m.