Man in motorized wheelchair dies after crash in Las Vegas

A antheral successful a motorized wheelchair was killed aft attempting to transverse the thoroughfare successful southeast Las Vegas connected Friday morning.

Police received a study astatine 11:23 a.m. astir a clang involving a wheelchair and a conveyance adjacent East Oquendo and South Pecos roads, according to a connection from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Investigators judge that a 70-year-old antheral successful a motorized wheelchair entered Pecos extracurricular of a crosswalk and was struck by a 2015 Toyota Tacoma driven by a 55-year-old man.

The pedestrian was ejected from the wheelchair and aboriginal died astatine Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

The motortruck operator was uninjured, and constabulary did not item immoderate excessive velocity oregon impairment.

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