LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Household and mates joined regulation enforcement and group advocates Friday for a vigil to honor these killed on Southern Nevada highways.
In 2024, 412 individuals misplaced their lives in crashes on Nevada roadways, together with 293 in Clark County.
Nevada Freeway Patrol held the annual occasion at its headquarters close to Bermuda and Sundown Roads to recollect 88 individuals who died of their jurisdiction.
“You never get over that pain,” Diane Malone mentioned. “It’s with you all the time.”
Household and mates joined regulation enforcement and group advocates on Friday for a vigil to honor these killed on Southern Nevada highways.
In 2024, 412 individuals misplaced their lives in crashes on Nevada roadways, together with 293 in Clark County. (KLAS)
In 2024, 412 individuals misplaced their lives in crashes on Nevada roadways, together with 293 in Clark County. (KLAS)
In 2024, 412 individuals misplaced their lives in crashes on Nevada roadways, together with 293 in Clark County. (KLAS)
In 2024, 412 individuals misplaced their lives in crashes on Nevada roadways, together with 293 in Clark County. (KLAS)
Malone attended Friday’s occasion to recollect her daughter and son-in-law who had been hit and killed by a drunk driver in 2018.
“They were just sitting at a stoplight waiting for the light to change,” Malone mentioned. “And he rammed them at over 100 miles an hour. They didn’t have a chance.”
Malone was one in every of many individuals who confirmed as much as supply assist as regulation enforcement and different group members spoke on the significance of what they known as a dedication to reclaim the roadways.
“It’s important that they know,” Nevada Freeway Patrol Main Kevin Honea mentioned. “That we feel that loss too.”
Main Honea and a number of other others spoke on their efforts to give attention to the faces behind the tragedies they cope with each day.
Through the ceremony, the identify of every particular person killed was learn whereas troopers lit candles to recollect them.
“It’s important for everybody to know that we understand that that’s a father, that’s a sister,” Main Honea mentioned. “Everybody had an empty table at Christmas last year.”
Extra individuals died in crashes throughout Clark County in 2024 in comparison with 2023, based on Nevada State Police.
Statistics launched in January cited a 6% rise in general fatalities, with impairment and rushing listed as prime elements.
Main Honea additionally spoke with 8 Information Now Friday about work to make modifications and improve security.
“We do what we can, obviously with the legislative session that we are currently in,” Main Honea mentioned. “There are a lot of traffic safety initiatives, there are a lot of little tweaks to the law.”
Malone expressed her ongoing grief and unhappiness, which she described as endless.
She hopes her story serves as a reminder to by no means drive impaired.
“Just never drive drunk. There is absolutely no excuse for it,” Malone concluded. “There are too many other options out there as far as transportation.”
