Six dead: A deadly few days on Las Vegas Valley roads

Six people were killed in separate crashes on Las Vegas Valley roads in the four-day span from Saturday to Tuesday, including four pedestrians, an e-scooter rider and a truck driver.

Tuesday morning, a deadly crash occurred just before noon in east Las Vegas after a transit bus collided with an e-scooter that was being operated by a 32-year-old Las Vegas man, according to a news release from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Police said the driver of the e-scooter was traveling west along East Flamingo Road, west of the Pecos-McLeod Interconnect, when the scooter entered the path of a transit bus, which was in a designated bus lane.

The scooter’s left side then collided with the front right side of the bus. Medical personnel pronounced the e-scooter driver dead at the scene, police said. His name had not been released as of early Tuesday evening.

The death was the 44th traffic-related fatality in Metro’s jurisdiction in 2025.

Freeway pedestrian death

Early Tuesday morning, the Highway Patrol investigated a fatal crash in which a pedestrian was killed on Interstate 15 in Las Vegas near the Sahara Avenue exit.

All of the northbound lanes of the I-15 just south of Sahara were closed for a time as a result of the crash, which happened just before 5:40 a.m.

The pedestrian, identified only as a woman, was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.

According to police, the driver of the sedan involved in the crash remained on scene and was cooperative with investigators.

Driver crashes into dump truck

A man was pronounced dead after the pickup truck he was driving crashed into a dump truck near Boulder Highway and South Sandhill Road just after 7 a.m. Monday, police said.

The pickup truck driver was traveling “at a high rate of speed” on Boulder Highway when the dump truck slowed to a “safe stop” in a lane to turn into a construction site, police said. The pickup, police said, then struck the rear of the dump truck.

Hit-and-run crash

Also on Monday morning, a North Las Vegas man was booked into the Clark County Detention Center following a hit-and-run crash that left a pedestrian dead in west Las Vegas.

Seth Lyman, 31, was booked into the jail on Monday and faces pending charges related to the crash, which happened just after 2 a.m. Monday near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Vegas Drive, according to a Metro news release.

Lyman, police said, was driving a 2020 Kia Optima along the boulevard when the car struck a 35-year-old man attempting to cross the street in a crosswalk. Lyman, Metro said, drove away from the crash scene but was later located by police.

Struck by two cars

On Saturday evening, a pedestrian was killed after being struck by two cars on Boulder Highway.

The pedestrian was struck by a 2007 Toyota Corolla around 8:35 p.m. at Boulder and Tropicana Avenue when the man crossed the street in a marked crosswalk but “failed to obey the traffic control device,” according to authorities.

An unidentified vehicle that police believe to be a white 2012 to 2022 Volkswagen Passat then drove over the man who was lying in the road from the crash. That vehicle then continued south on Boulder Highway, police said.

Hit-and-run

Not far from Tuesday’s crash involving an e-scooter and bus, a 64-year-old man died following a hit-and-run crash near McLeod Drive at the Pecos-McLeod Interconnect on Saturday evening, according to Metro.

The man was struck just before 8 p.m., according to police. He was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. That crash was still under investigation as of Tuesday night and the driver remained at large, police said.

The spate of deaths happened after a Friday vigil at the Nevada Highway Patrol’s Southern Command office in Las Vegas. The vigil memorialized the 88 people who lost their lives in traffic crashes last year in the Highway Patrol’s southern jurisdiction, which includes Southern Nevada.

Statewide, 412 people lost their lives in crashes on Nevada roads in 2024, according to the Highway Patrol. That was up from 390 in 2023, but less than the 416 fatalities recorded in 2022, according to state records.

Through the first two months of 2025, 71 traffic-related fatalities were recorded in Nevada, according to the state’s Department of Public Safety. That was 10 more than were reported through the first two months of 2024.

A previous version of this story misspelled the name of the driver charged in a hit-and-run crash.

Contact Bryan Horwath at bhorwath@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BryanHorwath on X.