“This isn’t one that we don’t know what the fix is,” Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft said. “We know that when people drive a little bit slower, less people die.”
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Safety experts hoped decriminalizing traffic offenses would lead to fewer speeding tickets being reduced to parking violations, but that doesn’t appear to have happened.
Impairment and speeding are the largest contributing factors to deadly crashes in the state, a NDOT official said.
More than 340 children were injured by crashes within a quarter-mile of Clark County school campuses, during hours immediately before and after classes, state data shows. CCSD numbers are much lower. Here’s why.
A Review-Journal investigation showed over 200,000 tickets were pleaded down to parking violations between 2017 and 2021, a policy that concerns state safety officials.
Starting in October, medical professionals will patrol with the Metropolitan Police Department seven nights a week to collect blood samples at traffic stops to combat DUI.
A rise in fatal crashes has made North Las Vegas officials keenly aware they are falling behind. Andy Navarro works long shifts in a department strained because there are not enough officers.
Hundreds of thousands of traffic tickets — even those for serious offenses — are reduced to parking violations, a Review-Journal investigation found. And with a siloed court system, bad drivers face little punishment.
Switching traffic tickets to civil infractions will result in far fewer being reduced to parking violations, some officials say.
Nevada courts operate in information silos, making it difficult for police and judges to know a person’s complete driving history. An improved system is planned for 2023.
Fatal crashes in the Las Vegas Valley are increasing as the statewide average is declining.
His spotless DMV history didn’t reflect his alarming driving habits — police had caught Gary Dean Robinson speeding at least five times since August 2020, ranging from 19 to 40 mph over the limit.
Tanaga Miller died in the passenger seat of Gary Dean Robinson’s car after Robinson sped through a red light at 100 mph. Miller had left a family gathering just before the crash.
One law enforcement official says the numbers would be much higher – maybe thousands more – if staffing within the Nevada Highway Patrol wasn’t at “critically low levels.
The motorist who caused a North Las Vegas crash that killed nine people, including himself, pleaded guilty to speeding nine days earlier.