Local man dies after being hit by a pickup truck outside Gold Coast

Gold Coast hotel-casino, seen in 2020 in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A Las Vegas man has died after being struck by a vehicle outside the Gold Coast, police said Thursday.

The 77-year-old man was walking in a marked crosswalk on West Flamingo Road at 11 a.m. Monday, when he was struck by a 2001 Ford F-150 pickup truck and knocked into the road.

The man was taken to University Medical Center in critical condition and died at the hospital two days later, according to a Metropolitan Police Department press release.

The Clark County coroner’s office identified the pedestrian as Yongjiu Bai of Las Vegas. His death was ruled an accident caused by multiple blunt force trauma.

The collision remained under investigation.

Contact David Wilson at dwilson@reviewjournal.com. Follow @davidwilson_RJ on Twitter. Staff writer Sabrina Schnur contributed to this report.

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