20-year-old man dies in central Las Vegas crash
A man is dead after an early Saturday morning crash in the central valley, Las Vegas police said.
Just after 3 a.m. Saturday a GMC sport utility vehicle traveling east on Owens Avenue ran a red light at the H street intersection. The SUV hit a pickup truck that was turning left onto Owens in the intersection, then ran off the road, overturned and hit a light pole, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement.
Eduardo Morales-Urrutia, the SUV’s 20-year-old driver, was pronounced dead at the scene. Tthe vehicle’s passenger, also 20, suffered moderate injuries. Alcohol and driving speed appear to be factors in the crash, police said.
The two people in the pickup truck suffered minor injuries and the truck’s driver showed no signs of impairment, police said.
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