LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Two people are dead and three people were sent to the hospital after a wrong-way crash early Saturday morning, according to police.
Nevada State Police say around 2:40 a.m., three vehicles crashed in the northbound lanes of the 215 beltway, south of Town Center Drive.
Investigators say they believe a white Cadillac was traveling the wrong way when it crashed head-on into a Chevrolet pickup truck. A Nissan was hit in the collision as well.
According to NSP, the woman driving the Cadillac died on scene. It's not clear if she was impaired.
Police say the man driving the pickup truck died on scene and his passenger was transported to University Medical Center with "serious" injuries. Both the driver and the passenger of the Nissan were taken to UMC with "moderate" injuries, investigators said.
The 215 northbound lanes are back open after an hours-long closure.
This marks the Nevada State Police, Highway Patrol – Southern Command’s eighth fatal crash in 2023.
On Monday, the Clark County Coroner identified the two people who died in the crash as 48-year-old Jose Cutberto Tabares-Acosta and 39-year-old Quinyana Lonyae Long. Tabares-Acosta's cause of death was blunt force injuries of the chest and extremities. Long's cause of death was identified as blunt force injuries of head, trunk and extremities. Both were ruled as accidents.
