LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Nevada Highway Patrol says a wrong-way driver and another man were killed in a collision on Interstate 15 just south of Las Vegas.
The wreck occurred Thursday night near Sloan, which is 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Las Vegas.
Trooper Jason Buratczuk said a 42-year-old Primm man driving a sedan northbound in southbound lanes collided with a van driven by a man who also was killed.
Identities weren’t released.
Buratczuk told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the Highway Patrol received multiple calls about a wrong-way driver and that troopers were dispatched but arrived at the scene just after the crash occurred.
Buratczuk said both vehicles were going about 70 mph and that the crash was “pretty much unsurvivable.”
Buratczuk also said the wrong-way car’s headlights were off and that investigators didn’t know if the driver was impairedl.
The freeway was reopened about five hours after the crash.
A 39-year-old Henderson man died Tuesday morning in a wrong-way crash on I-15 in Las Vegas.
The Nevada Department of Transportation is implementing a pilot program to deter wrong-way drivers.
The system using a camera and sensor to alert wrong-way drivers with strobe-like beacons on wrong-way signs is being installed at an U.S. 95 off-ramp in the Las Vegas area.
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