Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 | 11:10 a.m.
North Las Vegas police have arrested a man accused of driving under the influence in a fatal crash earlier this month.
Armando Iribe Jr., 19, was taken to the North Las Vegas Detention Center after the 5:40 p.m. Tuesday arrest, police said. He has been booked on a felony count of DUI with alcohol with death and a count of reckless driving with death.
Iribe was driving a white 1994 Honda Accord with two passengers on Oct. 11 going west on East Lake Mead Boulevard, just west of Belmont Street, when the crash occurred about 1:15 a.m., police said.
A white 1998 Dodge Ram pickup truck driven by a 52-year-old Las Vegas resident was heading east on Lake Mead. Iribe lost control of his Honda as he drove an estimated 77 mph in a 35 mph speed zone, police said. The car hit the pickup head-on, according to police.
One of the passengers in the Accord, 21-year-old Jorge Guerrero of Pacoima, Calif., was thrown from the car and pronounced dead at the scene. The Clark County Coroner's Office ruled the death an accident. Guerrero died from a head injury, a coroner's spokeswoman said.
The second passenger, an 18-year-old Las Vegas resident, was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
This was the third fatal traffic collision in North Las Vegas this year.
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