LAS VEGAS (AP) — A car went out of control near a Las Vegas intersection and rolled as it slammed into a bus stop, killing four pedestrians and injuring several other people. Police said the driver faces charges of driving under the influence resulting in death.
The crash killed three women and a man as they waited for a bus shortly before 6:30 a.m. PDT Thursday, police said. Three others at the bus stop and five people in the car were injured.
“It’s a pretty horrific scene out here,” Las Vegas police officer Laura Meltzer.
Driver Gary Lee Hosey Jr., 24, was hospitalized in serious condition. Police said Thursday night that he was “booked in absentia on four counts of DUI-death.”
The car went out of control and left the roadway while traveling through an intersection.
“The vehicle began to roll over as it struck a total of seven pedestrians sitting on/near a bus bench,” police said in a release.
The dead — women ages 47, 49, and 65, and a 24-year-old man — were all Las Vegas residents but their names were being withheld pending notification of relatives, police said.
In addition to Hosey, all four passengers in his car and three people waiting at the bus stop were injured. Police said four were hospitalized with critical injuries, two with serious injuries, and one was treated and released for minor injuries. The injured ranged in age from 19 to 31 and all but one is from Las Vegas.
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