2 dead, 9-year-old critically injured after crash in northeast Las Vegas
Two women were killed and a 9-year-old girl was critically injured in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday night in the east Las Vegas Valley, police said.
Latasha Patterson, 38, of Las Vegas, was identified Wednesday by the Clark County coroner’s office as one of the two people who died in the collision. The coroner’s office said Patterson was a passenger in the vehicle.
A 36-year-old Las Vegas woman who was driving the vehicle, a 2007 Nissan Murano SUV, was also killed. The coroner’s office had not yet released her name Wednesday.
The crash happened at 7:44 p.m. on East Carey Avenue, east of North Pecos Road, according to a press release from the Metropolitan Police Department.
The Nissan Murano was heading east on Carey toward Pecos “at a high rate of speed” when the driver “lost control of the vehicle,” the press release said.
The vehicle hit the curb, went up onto the sidewalk, hit a wall and then struck a power pole, police said.
The two women died at the scene. The girl was taken to University Medical Center.
The deaths were the 75th and 76th traffic-related fatalities in Metro’s jurisdiction in 2025, police said.
Contact Mark Davis at mdavis@reviewjournal.com. Contact Brett Clarkson at bclarkson@reviewjournal.com. Review-Journal reporter Casey Harrison contributed to this report.
