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March 28, 2024

Coroner IDs scooter rider killed in crash with ambulance

Fatal Accident with Ambulance and Scooter

Steve Marcus

A MedicWest ambulance is loaded on a tow truck after a fatal accident involving the ambulance and two people on scooter at Fremont Street/Boulder Highway and Sahara Avenue Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. The male driver of the scooter was killed, police said.

Fatal Accident With Ambulance and Scooter

A MedicWest ambulance is loaded on a tow truck after a fatal accident involving the ambulance and two people on scooter at  Fremont Street/Boulder Highway and Sahara Avenue Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. The male driver of the scooter was killed, police said. Launch slideshow »

Fatal Accident

A scooter rider killed Monday in a crash with an ambulance making an emergency run has been identified by the Clark County Coroner’s Office as Michael Ortiz, 50, of Las Vegas.

A passenger on the scooter, Sharon Peterson, 49, of Las Vegas was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in critical condition, Metro Police said.

The accident happened just before noon Monday at the intersection of Sahara Avenue and Boulder Highway, police said.

The ambulance, responding to a call with its lights and sirens activated, was headed east on Sahara through the intersection when the scooter, headed north on Boulder Highway, ran into the side of it, police said.

Other traffic at the intersection had stopped, but the scooter continued straight into the intersection from the right turn lane, police said.

Ortiz was taken to the hospital with critical injuries and was later pronounced dead. The Coroner’s Office has not yet released a specific cause of death.

Neither of the two people on the ambulance, operated by MedicWest Ambulance, were injured, officials said.

The intersection was closed for about five hours while police investigated.

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