Woman dies, infant hurt in crash
A 33-year-old woman died Wednesday after she lost control of her 2006 Ford Focus and it overturned on Las Vegas Boulevard just south of Sloan. The woman's 5-month- old female passenger survived the crash.
Lora Yvette Ethridge-Manier-Wilson of Las Vegas was headed north on Las Vegas Boulevard when, for unknown reasons, her car drifted off the roadway's edge onto the right dirt shoulder. As she steered to the left to move the Ford back on to the roadway, the car spun out of control and eventually overturned, said Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Kevin Honea.
The woman and the infant were both ejected from the car. Neither was wearing a seat belt. Ethridge-Manier-Wilson was pronounced dead on scene. The child was taken to University Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. There was a child safety seat in the car, but the child was not in it, Honea said.
"(Child seats) are important, especially to protect those that can't protect themselves," Honea said. "They just provide that extra line of defense."
