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Published Thursday, May 12, 2011 | 4:16 p.m.
Updated Thursday, May 12, 2011 | 4:25 p.m.
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Metro Police were investigating an accident west of downtown Las Vegas that left an 8-year-old boy with serious injuries.
Police spokesman Bill Cassell said police responded at 3:36 p.m. to reports of a child hit by a vehicle near Rancho Drive and Pinto Lane. Police said the boy was taken to University Medical Center in critical condition with a head injury.
Lt. Dan McGrath said alcohol likely wasn't a factor in the incident.
One lane of Rancho Drive was shut down at Pinto Lane. Metro’s fatal unit was dispatched to the scene and police are continuing to investigate the crash.
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just another typical vegas idiot driver. This boils my blood the fact the people in this city can't drive.
I hope the parents of the 8 yr old sue the pants off this clown
There is a school crossing (and now a traffic light) at Rancho and Palomino, which is one block south of Pinto Lane (Wasden Elementary is on Palomino). Unless the child was jaywalking, which sounds unlikely, it appears that the driver just blew through the crossing. Sad indeed.
More knee-jerk comments from those who know nothing of what happened. This is a six-lane road; where were the parents of an eight year old near a six-lane road?
Oh, so I gather that YOU know what happened? As I said, there is a marked crossing there. Until last month, when traffic lights that had been installed for some time became operative, there were school crossing guards on duty in the morning and afternoon. There is nothing that has been reported so far regarding whether the child was crossing against the light as opposed to the driver running the light.
I drove past this earlier and saw the boy laying on the grass past the sidewalk with a cop.
This was not in the side walk and quit a bit away from it.
According to other news reports, the boy ran into the street to get a tennis ball. The driver tried to swerve and ended up hitting the kid.
To the anonymous and unccountable "bhk": I was born and raised in the neighborhood, so, please, don't school me. All I did was raise an obvious question.