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StumbleWoman critically injured in three-car accident on Las Vegas Strip
21-year-old Las Vegas man arrested on felony DUI charges
Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010 | 11:07 a.m.
A Las Vegas woman was critically injured this morning in a three-vehicle accident at South Las Vegas Boulevard and East Wynn Boulevard.
At about 4:10 a.m., a Chevrolet Cobalt struck the curb at the southeast corner of the intersection of South Las Vegas Boulevard and East Wynn Boulevard. The Chevrolet Cobalt became airborne and hit two vehicles – a Chevrolet Malibu and a Lincoln Navigator limo – that were stopped at a signal on Wynn Boulevard, facing West.
The Chevrolet Colbalt then rolled onto its side, and a passenger was ejected from the car, police said.
The driver of the Chevrolet Malibu, 58-year-old Karen Torian of Las Vegas, was transported to UMC with critical injuries. The passenger in the Malibu, 28-year-old John Carlo of Staten Island, N.Y., was not injured.
The driver of the Chevrolet Cobalt, 21-year-old Michael McManus of Las Vegas, was arrested on felony DUI charges and was brought to the Clark County Detention Center, police said. The passenger in the Cobalt, Courtney McKeehan, 21, of Las Vegas, was transported to UMC with serious injuries.
The driver of the Lincoln Navigator limo, Yonatan Abrha, 30, of Las Vegas, was transported to UMC with minor injuries.
The accident remains under investigation, police said.
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penalty for DUI needs to be instant death penalty.
soon as failing a BAC test...boom! shoot em in the head.
I believe in due process, sounds like some people liked the methods of the British and not the justice system embraced by the founding fathers. Most people don't deserve America, they want communist China.
As if there can't be mistakes regarding lab tests? I thought government couldn't do anything right?? But if they run a lab it is without error??
Am with you LVMACP, just shoot them.... there are so many cabs on the strip and so many PSA... no one should be drinking and driving these days.. What a jerk so now he has caused 3 people to be put in the hospital just because he did not want to pay for a ride home.... Nice Job Michael McManus
What else is new...Typical saturday night on the town...But then again,, what actually happened and what is written are two different things...
More rational commentary, I see.
unless you are drunk, I suggest staying of the roads early morning or you will get hit!
here is the LV sun being BIAS AGAINST CAB DRIVERS IN THIS TOWN!!!
the seriously hurt female driver, Karen, was a cab driver driving the chevy malibu....taxicab.
i think the irony here, is that the cheap retarded 21 year old drunkard hit a cab that could have gotten him home SAFELY. i hope the local idiot gets the chair just for driving drunk.
LV already has so many PSA's...
- Mark Szczygiel
Must be the big boost in booze sales the Sun was reporting on. How does a Cobalt become airborne anyways?
Another night/morning of demolition derby on the Las Vegas roads.
Well before you go shooting people what was the BAC # and you can be considered drunk legally with only one beer depending on weight so get the facts please before you un holster your pistola partner...
How does a Cobalt become airborne anyways? By driving TOO EFFING FAST!!!
I smell a recall.
New this had to be a bad one...all the sirens woke us up while staying on a high floor at palazzo, it was quite a scene...hope everyone recovers and drunk drivers get a clue.
these people seriously need to get off the streets. lock them up and throw away the keys.
agree.....as many if not more cabs in LV as in NYC. No excuse for driving under influence; if BAC is confirmed...immediate conviction beyond fullest extent of stupidity.
People will continue to drink and drive, even if the cops carried with them a mini-guiolltine in the trunk of their squad cars. Sad how people that are just minding their own business, at a stop light and passengers of said drunk drivers, are the victims and the drunk drivers usually escape with little injury.
Also, the person that was ejected, were they wearing their seatbelt or was there a malfunction?