Driver critical at UMC after hitting car, light pole in downtown crash

A crash in downtown Las Vegas sent one person to the hospital with critical injuries late Monday night.

A suspected drunken pickup driver hit a car and a pole at Las Vegas Boulevard and East Clark Avenue about 11 p.m., according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Lt. CJ Jenkins said the driver was taken to University Medical Center.

“The passengers in the vehicle he struck had minor injuries,” Jenkins said.

Metro’s fatal detail was not dispatched.

“To this point, this isn’t in that category,” he said just before midnight Tuesday.

Jenkins said the pickup driver was the lone occupant and the car he hit had four people inside.

The hood of a red pickup truck was wrapped around a pole in the northwest corner of the intersection early Tuesday. Debris littered the surrounding crash site.

The intersection was temporarily closed while police investigated the crash.

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