Scooter rider in critical condition after east valley crash
A scooter rider is in critical condition after a Friday morning crash in the east valley, Las Vegas police said.
Officers were called at 10:48 a.m. to Nellis Boulevard and Harris Avenue after 41-year-old Zonkiss Jones, the operator of a TaoTao scooter, drove off the roadway and crashed, police wrote in a release Friday afternoon.
The scooter overturned when it hit the curb and slid across the intersection and onto the northeast corner sidewalk. Jones was thrown from the scooter and hit his head on a traffic signal box on the southeast corner of the intersection, the release said.
Jones, who was wearing a helmet, was taken to University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
The reason the scooter, which was towing a homemade trailer, left the road was unknown, police wrote in the release.
Nellis Boulevard was closed in the area for about four hours while officers investigated.
Police originally said the crash was between a motorcycle and a vehicle. The only vehicle involved in the wreck was the scooter, police wrote later.
Review-Journal writer Kimber Laux contributed to this report.
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