Nevada Highway Patrol via AP
Published Thursday, June 20, 2019 | 10:41 a.m.
Updated Thursday, June 20, 2019 | 7:02 p.m.
ALAMO — A Nevada highway between Las Vegas and Ely (EE'-lee) has reopened, after a fatal crash of a tractor-trailer hauling granite stone from Idaho to Southern California.
Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Jason Buratczuk (bur-AH'-chek) says the big rig rolled over about 5:30 a.m. Thursday, spilling its cargo on State Route 318 just north of Alamo.
The road was closed between Alamo and Ely for about nine hours.
Buratczuk says a 25-year-old relief driver in a sleeping compartment died and the injured driver was flown by medical helicopter to a hospital in Las Vegas, about 100 miles away.
His injuries injuries and condition weren't immediately known, and names and hometowns weren't immediately made public.
Buratczuk says the truck belongs to a company from Rialto, California, and was headed to Santa Monica, California. He didn't know the location in Idaho where it started.