Published Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 | 8:23 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 | 3:20 p.m.
The Nevada Highway Patrol says a busy stretch of Las Vegas freeway has reopened after a 10-hour closure caused by a fatal crash involving a wrong-way driver slamming head-on into a tractor-trailer.
Officials said northbound lanes of Interstate 15 reopened about 1:30 p.m. today near the Las Vegas Strip.
Trooper Travis Smaka says a driver was killed when a Jeep being driven south in the northbound freeway lanes slammed into a tractor-trailer.
The tractor-trailer driver was hospitalized with injuries that weren’t believed to be life-threatening.
Smaka says two people in another big rig involved in the crash weren’t injured.
The closure of seven travel lanes snarled the morning commute and created traffic jams on surface streets near Sahara Avenue and Charleston Boulevard.
The Nevada Department of Transportation said all but two lanes will be shut down again for emergency repairs from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. today and Wednesday between Sahara Avenue and Charleston Boulevard. The crash gouged the road surface, officials said.
Crew will replace about 500 feet of damaged asphalt across seven lanes, officials said. A more permanent repair will be made in the spring, officials said.
Las Vegas Sun reporter Ricardo Torres-Cortez contributed to this report.
