I, like, totally saw this.Not the crash, but an earlier part of the chase. The driver careened around the corner of Ogden and Las Vegas Blvd. downtown, then tore around the corner down Fremont, right at the end of the Fremont Street Experience.
It's a busy intersection. Cars scattered, probably because of the sirens blaring on the half-dozen cop cars closing in, and he made it through — amazingly, I thought, because the cops were right on his ass.
You can't tell it from the photo, but the car was in bad shape before the crash. The windshield had a cantaloupe-sized hole in it in front of the driver, the rear bumper was hanging off and it wasn't running too smoothly. Still, he made it from North Las Vegas to the wrong side of the road on the Strip, about 10 miles in a straight line — and he wasn't going in a straight line.
The R-J called it a high-speed chase. When I saw it, though, they weren't going more than 15 mph. He passed slowly enough for me to get a good look at his face. He looked vacant, his mouth hanging open, eyes unblinking and dead. Police say he stole the car and charged him with two counts of battery with a deadly weapon, so I guess he wasn't a zombie. But he looked like he was running on autopilot. Maybe he just figured there was nothing else for him to do but push it as far as he could.
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And that's the best pic you could snag?? Come on, where's the close-up of the collision? Where's the auto parts strewn across the roadway?
And you call yourself a journalist?!?
Um, not my picture ... I didn't see the end of the chase, dude.
The cops probably wouldn't let the photog any closer. It is a weird shot, but I think they wanted to show the Wynn to let people know where the wreck was. It's a well-known view.
I can see his defense now: Your Honour, it was the advertisement. Did you...did you know there are brothels in Vegas?
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