11 taken to hospital after car hits people on Las Vegas Strip

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11 taken to hospital after car hits people on Vegas Strip
The Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say 11 adults were taken to a trauma center after a car ran into pedestrians Sunday night on the Las Vegas Strip.

Danita Cohen, spokeswoman for University Medical Center in Las Vegas, says the crash victims were brought to its trauma center. No conditions were immediately available.

KSNV-TV says the crash occurred in front of the Paris Hotel & Casino and Planet Hollywood on South Las Vegas Boulevard, north of Harmon Avenue. The crash took place about 6 p.m.

The station says a woman, the alleged driver in the crash, is undergoing a field sobriety test. Multiple police and fire trucks are at the scene.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-12-21

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Las Vegas Strip blocked off after car mows down pedestrians
By Faith Karimi, CNN

(CNN)The Las Vegas Strip was blocked off after a car mowed down as many as 20 pedestrians Sunday night, authorities said.

Rows of ambulances gathered at the scene, their lights flickering in the night. A witness described a chaotic scene as people fled.

"Everyone was running ... and as I was running, I saw a car up on the sidewalk coming to toward us," a witness told CNN affiliate KLAS. "I saw a lady, she didn't seem like she wanted to stop the car, she had both hands on her wheel."

The witness said people tried to stop the driver.

Full story: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/20/us/las-vegas-strip-accident/index.html


-- CNN 2015-12-21

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Deaths, multiple injuries in Las Vegas car crash near Miss Universe
Network WriterNews Corp Australia Network

LAS VEGAS: -- AT LEAST three people have been killed and dozens injured in a major crash on the Las Vegas strip.

A car reportedly mounted the pavement and ploughed into pedestrians outside the venue hosting the Miss Universe pageant.
Traffic along the Las Vegas Boulevard has been shut down while police attend the scene, Las Vegas station KSNV-TV reported.

Full story: http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/deaths-multiple-injuries-in-las-vegas-car-crash-near-miss-universe/news-story/42c0fe6773981c0ecd2c340ce27b9b21


-- News.com.au 2015-12-21

[soalbundy]

she wasn't allowed to buy a gun

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Deadly Las Vegas crash treated as 'intentional,' but not terrorism

"The car was like a bowling ball and the human bodies were like pins."

LAS VEGAS: -- “The car was like a bowling ball and the human bodies were like pins” was the description one eyewitness gave after a motorist ploughed into a crowded Las Vegas pavement.

One person was killed and dozens injured in the crash, which local police now say is being treated as “intentional,” but not an act of terrorism.

“Basically earlier this evening we had an individual that drove up onto the sidewalk… as that individual drove, she continued to drive northbound on the sidewalk, striking several pedestrians,” said Las Vegas Police Captain, Peter Boffelli.

A female in her twenties fled the scene, but was later taken into custody. She is being tested for drugs and alcohol.

A three-year-old child who was also in the car is said to have escaped unharmed.

The incident took place on the main strip near the hotel where the Miss Universe pageant was being held.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-12-22

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Police: Driver in Vegas crash was seeking estranged partner
By SALLY HO and KEN RITTER

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A homeless woman accused of slamming a car carrying her 3-year-old daughter into a crowd of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip was likely on her way to Dallas to find the girl's estranged father, authorities said Monday.

Suspect Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, resided in Oregon and had been in Las Vegas for about a week in her 1996 Oldsmobile sedan, parking it at garages throughout the city, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said.

Investigators said she ran out of money and they believe she was headed to Dallas to find her daughter's father after they had a falling out.

Police believe Holloway intentionally mowed down people on a busy stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard, killing a woman from Arizona and injuring dozens of others on Sunday night.


After the crash, she parked at a casino a few blocks away, told a parking attendant that she had run down people and asked the valet to call 911, Lombardo said. Her daughter, who was in the backseat, was not hurt.

The sheriff said Holloway was stoic when police arrived, showed no resistance and spoke coherently about what happened. He declined to elaborate on what she said.

"She didn't appear to be distressed due to her actions. That's the best way I can describe it," Lombardo said.

Authorities declined to comment on a potential motive and said they were struggling to piece together Holloway's background.

She changed her name to Paris Paradise Morton in October, according to Oregon court records.

Several years ago, Holloway, a graduate of an alternative high school, received an award for overcoming adversity from the nonprofit Portland Opportunities Industrial Center.

In 2012, she told The Skanner, a newspaper that covers Portland's African-American community, that she was homeless during her freshman year in high school.

Holloway's cousin, Lashay Hardaway, told The Oregonian that Holloway worked hard to provide for her daughter. She disputed that Holloway was homeless and said she rented a room in Las Vegas.

The crash happened in front of the Paris and Planet Hollywood casino-hotels and across from dancing water fountains of the Bellagio hotel-casino. Visitors to the stretch walk from one casino to another.

The Miss Universe pageant was being held nearby at Planet Hollywood.

People jumped on the car and banged on its windows, but Holloway didn't stop driving on the sidewalk, Lombardo said. The car was fully on the sidewalk twice, including once when it traveled for 200 feet, police said.

There was no evidence that Holloway had consumed alcohol, but a drug recognition expert at the scene determined that she was under the influence of some sort of stimulant, Lombardo said.

Holloway, who was being held without bail, will be charged with murder with a deadly weapon, said Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson, who anticipated "a great number" of additional charges.

"When a person drives a 2,000-pound-plus motor vehicle intentionally onto a sidewalk, killing and injuring scores of people, that's murder," Wolfson said.

Holloway was under suicide watch at jail, said Deputy Clark County Public Defender Scott Coffee said. He said it was too early to say if he would pursue an insanity defense.

At least 35 people injured in the crash were taken to hospitals, including three people still in critical condition with head injuries, officials said.

The crash killed Jessica Valenzuela, 32, of Buckeye, Arizona, who was visiting Las Vegas with her husband, according to the Clark County coroner.

Other victims were from Oregon, Florida, Colorado, California, Washington, Mexico, and Quebec, Canada. Five were Canadian citizens, and four were Oregon college students in town to compete in a wrestling tournament.

Among the injured were five wrestlers and their coach from Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Another four were wresters from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.

Justin Cochrane of Santa Barbara, California, said the car appeared to be going 30 to 40 mph when it struck the pedestrians.

"It was just massacring people," said Cochrane, who was having dinner at a sidewalk restaurant outside the Paris hotel.

Cochrane said he couldn't understand why the driver went into the crowd a second time. He saw children and adults injured on the ground as the car drove away.

"Why would it slow to go around and then accelerate again?" he said. "I thought, 'It's a crazy person.'"
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Associated Press writer Gosia Wozniacka in Portland, Oregon, contributed to this report.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-12-22

[Scott]

Nonsense speculation posts and replies have been removed.

Along with another post containing untrue information.

[DM07]

Waiting for the gun- nuts to come out and go "See! Cars kill people, too! Wanna ban all cars?"

[oxo1947]

One dead 37 injured after a female driver plows into crowd in Las Vegas"

Must have been trying to parallel park...................

[mrwebb8825]

Waiting for the gun- nuts to come out and go "See! Cars kill people, too! Wanna ban all cars?"

No, But, If the people walking had all been armed, somebody might have shot her and saved a life and many injuries.

[DM07]

Waiting for the gun- nuts to come out and go "See! Cars kill people, too! Wanna ban all cars?"

No, But, If the people walking had all been armed, somebody might have shot her and saved a life and many injuries.

[gigman]

What meant to be normal ...times ago ...Now i is abnormal and opposite.....

We are to be blamed.

We allow our self's of changing our humans thinking.

We deserved to be reduced to minimum.

We are to be blamed for lost of our mind,

Because we are to be blamed for not using own brain.

Always pushing blame for others ........

YES, WORLD IS COMING TO THE THE END . ... and we deserved it.

One hand with smart phone and other with axle to kill.....

Beautiful world ..... (as sang by Armstrong)