A motorcycle clang successful the southbound vale resulted successful the decease of a rider and the hospitalization of the motorcycle’s operator Saturday, constabulary said.
The 2021 Harley-Davidson Road Glide motorcycle was passing vehicles connected the close enarthrosis of West Cactus Avenue conscionable aft 6:45 p.m. erstwhile a conveyance made a close crook into a backstage drive, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Metro said the Harley veered to the right, leaving the roadway and drove onto the sidewalk conscionable eastbound of South Cameron Street. Collisions with aggregate fixed objects ejected the rider earlier the motorcycle came to a rest, lodged betwixt a histrion and a ceramic retaining wall.
The driver, a 43-year-old man, was transported to University Medical Center’s Trauma Center with superior injuries. He showed nary signs of imparement, constabulary said. The passenger, a 40-year-old woman, was beyond aesculapian resuscitation and pronounced dormant astatine the scene.
The operator was booked successful abstentia astatine Clark County Detention Center connected reckless driving charges.
This clang marks the 56th traffic-related fatality of 2026 successful Metro’s jurisdiction. It remains nether investigation.
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