Las Vegas Sun

May 3, 2024

Coroner identifies man, 85, killed in I-15 crash near Mesquite

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The Clark County Coroner’s Office identified a Las Vegas man who was killed Saturday in a fatal wrong-way crash on Interstate 15 as Tomi Kawamoto.

The coroner said Kawamoto, 85, died from multiple injuries and ruled the death as accidental.

Kawamoto was driving a black Lexus the wrong way in the southbound travel lanes just before 3:30 p.m. Saturday and collided with a gray Infiniti at mile marker 117, about five miles south of Mesquite, Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Joseph Fackrell said.

Kawamoto was found dead at the scene and the 37-year-old male driver of the Infiniti was flown to University Medical Center with critical injuries, Fackrell said.

The accident is still under investigation.

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