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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According to a study released by Allstate, drivers in Las Vegas are 15 percent more likely to be in an automobile accident than the national average

The annual America’s Best Drivers Report says that the typical driver in Las Vegas will be in an accident once every nine years, ranking the city 123rd safest for driving out of 200.

Las Vegas has actually improved seven spots in the ranking, compared to last year, but is still behind several cities in Nevada with Henderson 57^th and North Las Vegas at number 130 and having a collision-frequency rate 17 percent above the national average.

Reno was the best performing in the state ranking 17th with its drivers having an accident once every 11.7 years on average.

The safest driving city in the country, according to the report, is Fort Collins, Colorado and the worst cities for driving include Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston.

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At around 7.45 pm on Sunday night, a motorcyclist was killed in an accident on Blue Diamond and Arlington Ranch, just west of Durango.

According to Nevada Highway Patrol, 38 year old Brendon Harris was speeding and being operated in a reckless manner on a yellow Honda motorcycle when he collided with a 67 year old woman driving a Honda CRV. She was making a legal left-hand turn from Blue Diamond onto Arlington Ranch.

The impact of the crash threw the motorcyclist from his bike and he was taken to UMC by air ambulance where he was pronounced dead.

The woman in the car was also taken to UMC with non-life threatening injuries.

Nevada Highway Patrol say that the crash is still being investigated and  this is the 38th fatal accident in the Southern Command and the 12th involving a motorcycle this year.

According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, a Pahrump woman was killed on Friday when a tire on the Mercedes-Benz she was driving failed and the car overturned.

The accident occurred about 1:30 p.m. as she was going northbound on U.S. 95 north of mile marker 33 in Nye County.

Officials said that it seems that the woman lost control when the right rear tire failed and the car ran off the highway and overturned. As the car overturned, the 37 year old driver was partially ejected.  The Mercedes came to rest on its wheels facing southeast in the natural desert terrain east of the roadway.

Officials went on to say that a preliminary investigation discovered that the woman was not wearing a seat belt. However they were still unaware as to what caused the tire to fail.

She was pronounced dead at the scene, but her name was not immediately released.

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A crash early Saturday morning in the southeast valley left a man dead.

According to Trooper Loy Hixson of Nevada Highway Patrol, they responded around 3 a.m. to the fatal accident on southbound U.S. Highway 95 at Flamingo Road.

Hixson said that a black Volkswagen hatchback was driving southbound on the 95 at a high speed when it struck the rear end of a red Honda Civic, which caused both cars to go out of control.

The Volkswagen swerved to the right and rolled over several times and the 25-year-old driver was thrown from the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene and has not as yet been identified

The 22-year-old driver of the Civic veered left and struck the center median. She only had minor injuries and was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

Hixon said that it was  not yet known if alcohol played a role in the accident, but the woman who was driving the Civic was suspected of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

The 95 was shut down until just before 7 a.m., when the left two lanes were re-opened to traffic.

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Researchers at the University of Colorado together with RAND Corporation, led by Daniel Kaffine, associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado, have being looking at the effectiveness of the laws, banning driving with a hand held mobile phone.

They looked at accident rates in California, both before and after July 2008 which was when the law was enacted. They took into account gas prices, miles traveled, rainfall, and holidays, which all impact on traffic patterns and crashes. They expected to find a five to 10 percent drop in accidents but surprisingly there was no difference in the rate of accidents after the ban on using hand held phones was introduced.

Kaffine concluded that bans have little impact on accidents, as drivers simply ignore the law, and even if they switch to hands free devices, they appear to be just as dangerous. He concluded that the problem was one of compliance, so increasing the fines for talking on cell phones would likely increase the effectiveness of the ban. However, if a person was constantly distracted while driving, and using the cell phone was just one of many things they might do, that was a different problem to resolve.

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