North Las Vegas crash closes MLK and Cheyenne intersection

By CHRIS KUDIALIS LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

9 years ago

Cheyenne & MLK is closed due to a crash involving a semi-truck. The driver was transported to UMC Trauma with non-life threatening injuries. (Facebook/North Las Vegas Police Dept PIO)

A sign is shown near University Medical Center’s emergency department entrance at UMC Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, in Las Vegas. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A two-vehicle crash in North Las Vegas closed a busy intersection on Tuesday night.

At 7:15 p.m., North Las Vegas police responded to a crash between a semitruck and one other vehicle at the intersection of North Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and West Cheyenne Avenue.

The driver of the truck was transported to University Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening, according to North Las Vegas spokesman Aaron Patty. Neither car had passengers.

The intersection was not expected to reopen until at least 10:00 p.m., according to police.

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