Grim milestone: Nevada roads see deadliest year in a decade

It’s official: Nevada’s roadways are having their deadliest twelvemonth successful a decade.

Over the weekend, the authorities reported its 330th death, surpassing the erstwhile grounds acceptable successful 2016 and tied successful 2018, said Nevada Department of Transportation manager Kristina Swallow. She made the announcement during Monday morning’s Nevada Transportation Board of Directors meeting.

This year’s decease toll included 66 pedestrians and 67 radical who were not wearing seatbelts oregon different restraints.

Fifteen deaths person already been reported successful November, astir 2 per day, said Zero Fatalities programme manager Andrew Bennett. As of the extremity of October, year-to-date deaths were up 24 percent implicit 2020.

The grim milestone is astir a week aft then-Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs struck and killed the 23-year-old operator of a compact SUV with his Corvette successful the southwest Las Vegas Valley, according to police.

Ruggs, 22, was reportedly traveling 156 mph connected Rainbow Boulevard soon earlier helium struck Tina Tintor’s car adjacent the road’s intersection with Spring Valley Parkway. His blood-alcohol level was 0.16 percent, doubly the state’s ineligible limit, according to the Clark County District Attorney’s Office.

Ruggs volition look multiple felony counts of DUI and reckless driving, according to tribunal records.

Excessive velocity has been a origin successful astir one-third of each fatal crashes successful the authorities successful caller years, Bennett said. More than 40 percent of fatal crashes impact drivers impaired by alcohol, marijuana oregon different substance.

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Review-Journal unit writer Mick Akers contributed to this report.