IN BRIEF

Driver, passenger die in intersection crash

A Friday evening accident that left two people dead was caused by a teenage driver who ran a stop sign, Las Vegas police said Saturday.

The 6:15 p.m. accident, at the intersection of Spring Mountain Road and Erva Street, near Fort Apache Road, left a 74-year-old man and a 71-year-old woman dead.

Police said a 2004 Dodge Neon driven by a 17-year-old girl was heading south on Erva and she failed to stop at the stop sign at Spring Mountain. The front of the car hit the driver’s side of a 2005 Hyundai XG350 sedan that was in the left lane on eastbound Spring Mountain.

The collision sent the Hyundai in a southeasterly direction and into a 2002 Saturn SL2 sedan that was stopped at the stop sign on northbound Erva.

The driver and a passenger of the Hyundai were pronounced dead at a hospital. Their names were not released.

Everybody else involved in the accident suffered minor injuries, including three other teenage passengers in the Neon and the three other passengers in the Hyundai.

The name of the driver of the Neon wasn’t released by police because she is a minor.

CAR’S INJURED DRIVER CHARGED

Passenger dies as car turns in front of truck

A 27-year-old Las Vegas man was killed Friday night after the car he was riding in turned in front of a dump truck in the southwest valley.

Las Vegas police said the man, whose name was not released, was in the passenger seat of a 2006 Ford sedan heading south on Buffalo Drive. About 7:25 p.m. the Ford made a left turn at Cactus Avenue, near state Route 160, failing to yield to a Kenworth dump truck heading north on Buffalo.

The truck hit the passenger side of the Ford.

The driver of the Ford, 29-year-old Michael Baach, suffered critical injuries and was airlifted to University Medical Center. Police booked him into the Clark County Detention Center in absentia on a charge of felony driving under the influence resulting in death.

The driver of the dump truck, 33-year-old Enforcer Torres, suffered minor injuries.

CITY’S WORST DISASTER

San Francisco marks quake anniversary

On April 18, 1906, a strong earthquake followed by three days of fire left much of San Francisco in ruin, the worst disaster in city history.

At 5:11 a.m. Saturday — the same time the quake hit 103 years ago — 103-year-old Bill Del Monte and 105-year-old Rose Cliver joined San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at Lotta’s Fountain on Market Street to commemorate the anniversary.

Del Monte, who lives in Greenbrae, Calif., was 3 months old when the temblor hit. He told the Marin Independent Journal that his family’s San Francisco house burned down in the fires that followed the temblor.