Candles and a picture of a mother and daughter signed “Love, Dad” by the scene of a double fatal accident, which occurred the night before, on Carey Avenue outside of Von Tobel Middle School on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Las Vegas. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
The scene of a double fatal accident, which occurred the night before, on Carey Avenue outside of Von Tobel Middle School on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Las Vegas. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
The scene of a double fatal accident, which occurred the night before, on Carey Avenue outside of Von Tobel Middle School on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Las Vegas. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
A balloon is left among other items at the scene of a double fatal accident, which occurred the night before, on Carey Avenue outside of Von Tobel Middle School on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Las Vegas. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Markings from police are visible at the scene of a double fatal accident, which occurred the night before, on Carey Avenue outside of Von Tobel Middle School on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Las Vegas. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Authorities are investigating a crash that left two women dead and a 9-year-old girl critically injured in the northeast Las Vegas Valley. (LVMPD_Traffic/X)
Authorities are investigating a crash that left two women dead and a 9-year-old girl critically injured in the northeast Las Vegas Valley. (LVMPD_Traffic/X)
Two women were killed and a 9-year-old girl was critically injured in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday night in the east Las Vegas Valley, police said.
Latasha Patterson, 38, of Las Vegas, was identified Wednesday by the Clark County coroner’s office as one of the two people who died in the collision. The coroner’s office said Patterson was a passenger in the vehicle.
A 36-year-old Las Vegas woman who was driving the vehicle, a 2007 Nissan Murano SUV, was also killed. The coroner’s office had not yet released her name Wednesday.
The crash happened at 7:44 p.m. on East Carey Avenue, east of North Pecos Road, according to a press release from the Metropolitan Police Department.
The Nissan Murano was heading east on Carey toward Pecos “at a high rate of speed” when the driver “lost control of the vehicle,” the press release said.
The vehicle hit the curb, went up onto the sidewalk, hit a wall and then struck a power pole, police said.
The two women died at the scene. The girl was taken to University Medical Center.
The deaths were the 75th and 76th traffic-related fatalities in Metro’s jurisdiction in 2025, police said.
