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44-year-old man killed, after his motorcycle collides with a pickup on Desert Inn Road in Las Vegas.
A motorcycle rider died Thursday night after his bike collided with a pick-up truck.
The crash happened at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Desert Inn Road near Brentwood Street. Police say the motorcycle, a 2005 Harley Davidson, was traveling westbound along Desert Inn, when it hit the truck. The truck was turning from Brentwood on to eastbound Desert Inn at the time of the collision.
A man was transported to the hospital in critical condition after crashing his motorcycle on State Route 159 Sunday night.
Nevada Highway Patrol responded to the scene near Avery Street about 6:45 p.m., according to a NHP trooper.
The man was airlifted to University Medical Center in critical condition, police said, and parts of State Route 159 will be partially closed while NHP investigates.
All lanes of northbound Interstate 15 reopened about 8:45 a.m. Monday after three hours of delays near the Charleston Boulevard exit.
Nevada Highway Patrol responded to two separate crashes involving motorcycles on I-15 near Charleston about 5:45 a.m., said a state trooper, which resulted in lane closures for northbound I-15.
One person sustained life-threatening injuries and was taken to University Medical Center, Elliott said.
By 8:45 a.m., all lanes were reopened.
A man who crashed his motorcycle on state Route 160 last month died from his injuries Wednesday.
Robert Neal Parsons, 62, was traveling north on Route 160 Feb. 20 near the intersection with state Route 159 when his motorcycle went off the road into the desert, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Parsons was thrown from his motorcycle and airlifted to University Medical Center, the patrol said.
Metro police are investigating a deadly motorcycle crash that happened early Saturday morning near Oakey and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Police stated that Trenton Gleaton 21, was driving a 2014 Kawasaki sport motorcycle, when he failed to stay in his lane while going eastbound on Oakey approaching MLK.
The bike ran off the right side of the roadway onto the south sidewalk and continued eastbound, crashing into the base of a street light pole.
Western Avenue was closed to traffic in both directions near Sahara following a fatal crash Thursday involving a motorcycle and vehicle.
The crash happened around 2:10 p.m. According to Metro Police, the motorcyclist was speeding and doing a wheelie on the wrong side of the road.
The motorcyclist, later identified as Griffith Alexander Grossguth 28, was pronounced dead at the scene and the driver of the vehicle was transported to the hospital with minor injuries.
A fatal motorcycle crash shut down the Charleston Boulevard off-ramp from southbound I-15 for more than four hours Friday morning.
Nevada Highway Patrol says the single-vehicle accident happened shortly after 3 a.m. The 28-year-old male rider died at the scene of the crash.