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Car drives onto pedestrian bridge on Las Vegas Strip

(Nevada Highway Patrol)

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By Mark Davis / Las Vegas Review-Journal

April 16, 2021 - 10:17 pm

Just when you think you had seen it all in Las Vegas.

On Friday night, the Nevada Highway Patrol tweeted that a driver had been arrested on “suspicion of DUI” after driving on a pedestrian bridge on the Las Vegas Strip.

What happens in Vegas... 🤦🏻‍♂️ This evening the DUI Strike Team arrested this driver on suspicion of DUI, and yes that’s a pedestrian bridge, for people not cars. #drivesober #lasvegas #DUIStrikeTeam #nhpsocomm pic.twitter.com/k6j2DZkRHk

— NHP Southern Command (@NHPSouthernComm) April 17, 2021

It appears that that the incident happened on a pedestrian bridge linking the Encore’s self-parking garage to the resort.

The DUI Strike Team with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department made an arrest, according to a tweet from Highway Patrol.

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