The corridor, roughly 530 yards long, has a posted speed limit of 45 mph and no marked crosswalks between 28th Street and Mojave Road. Police said all three pedestrians were taken to University Medical Center following the crashes. Doctors at UMC see the consequences firsthand of crashes around the valley, not just on East Charleston.

Three deaths after a driver smashed into an intersection going 109 mph. An 11-year old girl struck and killed crossing the street. Siblings, 6 and 11, killed by a speeding driver with their mother in the driver’s seat. Nine lives lost after a driver ran a red light at 103 mph and caused a six-vehicle crash. For some Las Vegans, stories like these from the past few years have become a harrowing reality of living in the city.

Over 100 children have been hit by vehicles in the Las Vegas Valley just since the start of the school year — a number that is more than double the number of kids hit by cars at the start of the school year in both 2024 and 2023.

Deadly traffic accidents are up 46% in Nevada since 2013, and they show no sign of slowing. That’s one of many findings out of the Nevada Road Users Database Traffic Study, administered by UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine.

A push is underway by a top medical professional at a Las Vegas hospital for drivers to slow down, as researchers learn more about traumatic injuries from car crashes in Nevada while trying to improve prevention efforts.

UNLV has new funding to dig deeper into the sharp rise in deadly crashes on Nevada roads and what can be done to save lives. The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine received $650,000 from the Nevada Department of Public Safety to study vehicle crashes.

A study from UNLV shows traffic deaths increasing across Nevada, and it may be more than what police can keep up with.

A UNLV study says traffic deaths in Nevada have increased over a decade span.