1 dead after car crashes into tractor-trailer in southeast Las Vegas Valley

Just before 1 a.m. Saturday, police responded to a crash near East Sunset and South Pecos roads involving a tractor-trailer and a white Ford Focus, police said.

Investigators found that the tractor-trailer was traveling south on Pecos through the intersection when the Ford Focus, traveling west on Sunset, ran a red light and crashed into the trailer.

The Focus became lodged beneath the trailer, between its axles. The truck’s 54-year-old driver stopped a short distance past the intersection and wasn’t injured, but the Focus’s driver, a woman in her 40s, died on scene.

The intersection was closed while the Metropolitan Police Department’s fatal detail investigated. The intersection has since reopened.

This is the first traffic fatality Metro has investigated this year. The woman’s name will be released after her next of kin has been notified.

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