Published Saturday, July 16, 2016 | 1:40 p.m.
Updated Sunday, July 17, 2016 | 1:20 p.m.
Alcohol might have contributed to a fatal single-vehicle wreck that killed a 23-year-old Las Vegas man early Saturday, according to Metro Police.
Officers were called shortly after 3 a.m. to Jones Boulevard, south of Transverse Drive near Charleston Boulevard, police said.
The man was speeding on northbound Jones in a 2000 GMC Sonoma pickup truck when he lost control approaching an S-curve, police said.
The truck ran over a raised center median, ran off the road, drove over landscape, boulders and trees before it flipped, ejecting the man, police said.
The man, who was not wearing a seatbelt, died at the scene, police said.
Preliminary reports that alcohol may have been a factor in the crash, police said.
This is the 55th traffic-related fatality in Metro Police’s jurisdiction for 2016. The crash remains under investigation.
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