Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019 | 12:25 p.m.
Nevada Highway Patrol has responded to two deadly wrong-way crashes within hours of each other in the Las Vegas area.
Officials say the first crash was reported around 11 p.m. Saturday after a wrong-way passenger car crashed with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 15 near Jean.
Details aren’t immediately available.
The second wrong-way fatal crash happened just before 2 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 215.
The crash involved two passenger vehicles and each vehicle had two occupants.
All four people involved in the crash were taken to University Medical Center Trauma.
Highway Patrol officials say a 41-year-old woman who was not in the wrong-way vehicle died from her injuries.
Both occupants in the vehicle that was headed the wrong-way were not wearing their seat belts.
Impairment is considered a factor in the crash.
The identities of the victims will be released by the Clark County coroner after their families have been notified.
