A Lincoln teenager died near Las Vegas on Saturday lunchtime.

According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, Lincoln residents, 19 year old Mike Guerrero-Sisneroz and his fiancé, McKayla Holmes, aged 18, were driving north on IR 15, just a few miles north of Las Vegas around noon. Sisneroz then lost control of the vehicle, which entered the median, hit a barrier and rolled over. The reasons why he lost control are not yet known.

Sisneroz was pronounced dead at the scene and McKayla, who was four months pregnant, is now recovering from her injuries in the hospital. She is said to have a fractured femur but is expected to recover and there appear to be no injuries to her unborn child.

Sisneroz who was the oldest of seven children, went to Lincoln East High School.

Police went on to say that the crash is still under investigation.

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A car crash late on Saturday night has left a man dead.

According to Las Vegas police, the accident happened around 10.30 p.m. on Gowan Road, near Walnut Road, when a 23 year old male was driving eastbound in a 1992 Honda Civic together with two passengers. As he was approaching New Horizon Avenue he lost control of the vehicle and drove onto the dirt shoulder, then back onto the road, across the westbound lanes of Gowan and hit a wooden power post with the passenger side of the car.

Police went on to say that the driver and one of the passengers, Marcos Luna aged 20 from North Las Vegas, were taken to University Medical Center with serious injuries. Luna then died at the hospital. The third passenger, a 20 year old man, refused medical assistance and left the scene.

At present it is unknown if alcohol or speed was a factor in the accident and it remains under investigation.

This is Metro’s 78th traffic-related fatality for the year.

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A driver of a Ford Expedition sued the driver of a pickup truck after he caused a car accident by making a left hand turn in front of him.

In June 2010, the driver of the Ford Expedition was traveling southbound on Rubidoux Boulevard in Riverside. He was about to approach the intersection at 28th Street when a Ford pickup truck crossed into his path making a left turn onto 28th street. The pickup truck pulled right in front of his vehicle and he was unable to stop and crashed into the pickup truck. Police were called to the scene and an ambulance arrived to take him to a local hospital to treat his injuries.

He suffered numerous serious injuries including a fractured knee cap and ribs, a sprained ankle and several cuts and abrasions to his face plus broken teeth.  The case was subsequently settled for $998,000.

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On Sunday morning there was a deadly accident on Summerlin Parkway.

According to Nevada Highway Patrol, at 5 a.m. on Sunday, 19 year old Marcelo Zavala, Jr. was on the parkway driving eastbound just past the Buffalo Drive exit, when he changed lanes and lost control of his vehicle, a Chevrolet Tahoe. It hit another SUV which then crashed into the guardrail. Zavala’s vehicle ended up on its roof.

Zavala’s passenger, 19 year old Steven Alexander Salas-Limon, of Las Vegas was killed and four other people were taken to hospital. One of the injured is critical with severe head injuries and two of the others were released following treatment.

Zavala and another of his passengers told police that they had been drinking and smoking pot and that as he had only had one beer he was driving. Nonetheless, he was charged with a string off offenses including causing death due to DUI, involuntary manslaughter, possessing drug paraphernalia and driving without a valid driver’s license.

According to court records, Zavala also had three warrants out for his arrest which were for leaving the scene of an accident and driving without a license.

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A two vehicle accident on Saturday in the north east valley has left a young girl dead and three other people seriously injured.

According to police, the rear end collision occurred at around 3.30 p.m. near the intersection of Easy Carey Avenue and Sandy Lane.

Charles Washington, aged 70, of Pahrump was driving a 2007 Dodge Ram 3500 that hit a 1993 Toyota Corolla in the rear end which was stopped in the middle of Carey when it was hit.  According to the accident report, the pickup failed to reduce speed before it struck the car and Washington has now been charged with DUI-death and DUI-substantial bodily harm.

The driver of the Toyota received serious injuries as did two of the passengers in the car. They were all transported to UMC Trauma. The right rear passenger died from her injuries. The Clark County coroner’s office has not yet released the names.

A passenger in the pickup fled the scene and had not been located as of Saturday night.

The accident was the 62nd traffic-related fatality in Metro’s jurisdiction this year.

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A motorcyclist has been killed in a collision with a wild horse on U.S. Highway 50.

According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, Stefan Sobkiewicz, aged 49, of Silver Springs,  was travelling westwards  on U.S. Highway 50 in Silver Springs, about 35 miles east of Carson City, when he struck a horse while it was standing in the highway near Rocky Road on Wednesday night.

They went on to say that he was thrown from the 2007 Harley Davidson he was driving and landed in eastbound lane. The road was unlit and he was then hit by three vehicles whose drivers could not see him and could not avoid running over him.

All three drivers stopped to assist but he was declared dead at the scene. The horse was injured and had

Investigators say they do not think alcohol or drugs played a role in the accident.

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Following a crash on Thursday evening in North Las Vegas, one person is dead and another is in critical condition.

According to North Las Vegas Police, the crash occurred around 8 p.m. just east of Decatur Boulevard when a motorcycle with both a driver and a passenger collided with a car.

The police went on to say that the motorcycle was traveling eastbound on Tropical Parkway when it crashed into the car. Eric James Howell, aged 19, who was on the motorcycle, was pronounced dead at the scene and the Clark County Coroner’s office gave the cause as blunt force trauma. The other person on the motorcycle was taken to the University Medical Center trauma unit in critical condition.

The lone occupant of the car, a 45 year old man, was uninjured and did not leave the scene. Police say that he is cooperating with them. They continue to investigate the cause of the accident but say that it seems that the accident was caused because the motorcyclist was speeding.

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According to Metro Police, a Las Vegas man has been killed after his motorcycle slammed into an SUV in the north valley on Wednesday afternoon.

The police went on to say that Kyle Renfroe, aged 20, was riding a 2006 Yamaha R1 motorcycle south on Rancho Drive near Torrey Pines Drive at about 4:50 p.m. as Rabih Hamdan, 41, was about to pull out of a parking lot on Rancho in a white 2001 Mercedes-Benz SUV.

However, when the SUV exited the parking lot at 4525 Rancho, onto the street, Renfroe ran into it on his motorcycle.

He was then taken to University Medical Center, where he died shortly afterwards. No one else was hurt in the incident.

Police said that the accident is still under investigation.

The crash is the 56th traffic fatality in Metro’s jurisdiction this year.

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