California man killed in 3rd fatal motorcycle crash in 10-hour span in Las Vegas Valley

A motorcyclist is dead after a crash early Saturday morning in the central Las Vegas Valley, which marked the third fatal motorcycle crash in Southern Nevada in about a 10-hour span.

The collision happened just 12:30 a.m. on West Oakey Boulevard at Western Avenue, according to a Metropolitan Police Department news release.

A 2023 Nissan Ariya westbound on Oakey was making a left turn at Western when an eastbound 2004 Yamaha 1100 motorcycle collided with the Nissan, police said.

The victim, a 24-year-old man from Thousand Oaks, California, died at the scene, according to the release. The Nissan driver remained at the scene and was not impaired, police said.

On Friday afternoon, a motorcyclist was killed in a crash involving a pickup truck on Boulder Highway south of East Tropicana Avenue.

In that crash, the motorcyclist, a 47-year-old Las Vegas man, died after the driver of a 2003 Ford F-150 truck turned into his path on Boulder Highway while he was operating a 1997 Suzuki motorcycle. The collision happened at around 2:20 p.m.

The man, who had not been identified as of Saturday afternoon, was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.

Officers responded just after 6 p.m Friday to a crash involving a motorcycle and a car near Cheyenne Avenue and Belmont Street, according to a news release from the North Las Vegas Police Department. Officers arrived to find a man unresponsive in the road, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Police said the motorcycle the man was driving was traveling eastbound on Cheyenne Avenue when it collided with the rear of a 2020 Chevrolet Spark that had just completed a U-turn.

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