It was a dangerous Tuesday morning for pedestrians in the Las Vegas Valley with three killed and a fourth critically injured in four separate crashes.
Every month, thousands of Southern Nevada traffic tickets — even those for the most serious offenses — are negotiated down to clear overburdened dockets, a Review-Journal investigation found.
Just being a pedestrian is far more dangerous for Black and Hispanic Americans as compared to white Americans, a recent study found.
In 2019, a team of researchers in Las Vegas set out to show that drivers can be less likely to stop their cars for someone crossing the street in front of them depending on the pedestrian's skin color or gender. They ran a simple test - they sent a white woman, a white man, a Black woman, and a Black man to cross residential streets in suburban Las Vegas, where the speed limit was 35. They took note of which cars hit the brakes and which ones sped on by.
It’s been months since the state reported that in 2021, traffic deaths were the worst they’d been since 2006.
For the past 21 years, Dr. Deborah Kuhls has worked as a trauma and critical care surgeon at University Medical Center the only level-one adult trauma center and pediatric trauma center in Nevada.
It seems almost every day we see some sort of a deadly crash in Las Vegas.
It’s a typical Thursday afternoon and the calendar is full.
It’s happening far more often than most Nevadans realize.
Traffic fatalities are on the rise in Nevada. More collisions stem from impairment on the road than in previous years, according to researchers.
Suzan Smith knows her life will never be the same. It changed forever on March 25, 2019.
You may have already seen them, but beginning Wednesday, volunteers started installing memorial plaques across Las Vegas to mark where pedestrians’ lives were lost.