Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Woman in wheelchair struck by car, fatally injured in Las Vegas crosswalk

A woman on a wheelchair who was properly crossing an east valley roadway Friday night was fatally injured when she was struck by a car, according to Metro Police.

The crash was reported at 10:25 p.m. on Bonanza Road and Wardelle Street, near Eastern Avenue, police said.

With just four days into 2019, the 59-year-old resident became the third pedestrian involved in a serious crash in Metro’s jurisdiction this year. She was the second to die.

The surviving pedestrian, an elderly man struck the previous day, remained in critical condition, said a traffic officer in a video posted on Metro’s traffic bureau’s Twitter account.

In Friday’s incident, a motorized wheelchair was rolling inside a crosswalk on Bonanza when it was rammed by a 2012 Honda Civic LX operated by a 31-year-old man, police said.

The woman was thrown from the chair, and later died at University Medical Center.

The motorist stuck around and was not believed to be impaired, police said. It wasn’t clear if he was cited.

“This is a violent, dangerous trend that we’re moving on right now and we need to change,” the traffic officer said about having two deaths on Las Vegas roadways in such a short period of time. “And the only way we can do that is if we look out for each other.”

The crash remained under investigation, police said.