Erin Breen, coordinator of the UNLV Transportation Research Center’s Traffic Safety Coalition, said Kamari’s death was due to an impatient driver violating traffic rules. She said drivers with taller cars, like the van involved in Friday’s crash, should be extra mindful to look down for shorter children.

Over 180 people have lost their lives on Clark County roads this year and out of those deaths, 55 were pedestrians, according to the Department of Public Safety.

Las Vegas Valley city courts are still reducing large numbers of speeding tickets to parking violations, a controversial practice that experts say allows dangerous drivers to put the public at risk.

 Clark County lost 11 people due to a traffic incident in September, which is a record for pedestrian fatalities in a single month.

With Halloween decorations already in stores and the smell of pumpkin spice in the air, holiday shopping will soon be in full swing — that means a surge in shipping activity.

From the killing of a bicyclist to pedestrian and child deaths, it’s been a deadly year on our roads. The number of traffic fatalities this year is almost the same as a year ago, and last year was one of the deadliest on record. Over just this last weekend, four people died in Clark County.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said the driver, identified as 17-year-old Gene Ashley-Aragon, ran a red light in a 2001 Buick LeSabre and hit a marked patrol LVMPD vehicle that was driving through the Flamingo and Boulder Highway intersection.

The MSG Sphere became an instant sensation when it turned on its lights during the Fourth of July weekend. Since then, the new concert venue has drivers stopping in the middle of the road, people running across lanes of traffic, and big traffic backups all just to get the best possible view.

There have been 9 fatalities just through the first 9 days of August, 5 of them including minors. Combined with 131 others through July 31st, including 40 this summer, the death toll on the valley's roads has soared to at least 140. Since 100 lives are lost in intersections each year across Nevada, Metro Police conducted targeted enforcement at Sahara and Decatur in recognition of National Stop on Red Week.

The three teenagers who died in a car crash in North Las Vegas last week weren't even old enough to have driver's licenses, according to the Clark County Coroner's Office.

Public safety officials around Clark County are becoming concerned about the recent surge in crashes involving motorcycles, including six over the past month, four of which were fatal.

The future engineers are making their mark on local roads to improve transportation for drivers. The National Summer Transportation Institute (NSTI) hosted a two-week program to give students the opportunity to envision and redesign streets across the valley.