A multi vehicle crash on Thursday near East Sahara Avenue and Fremont Street left a woman dead.
According to Las Vegas police, the accident happened shortly before 7 a.m. when 38 year Claudia Bustamante of Las Vegas was driving a motorized scooter with another female passenger. A 2000 Honda Civic was travelling southbound on Fremont Street and ran a red light. It was hit by a Toyota Camry travelling west on Sahara. The Honda then hit the back of a 1996 Ford Explorer on Sahara, which spun and hit the scooter, a 2013 Tao Tao VIP. Finally the Explorer hit a 2000 Volkswagen Jetta.
Bustamente and her passenger were thrown off the scooter and Bustamante was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.
The passenger on the scooter, a 39 year old woman, had serious injuries and the 32 year old woman driving the Honda Civic as well as a 59 year old man and a woman in the Explorer all suffered minor injuries and were taken to Sunrise Hospital.
The 44 year old female driving the Camry also suffered minor injuries but did not require hospital treatment.
The accident caused the intersection to be closed for around six hours.
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