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By / Las Vegas Review-Journal
July 27, 2019 - 9:42 am
 

A 37-year-old man sustained life-threatening injuries Friday night in a motorcycle crash in southwest Las Vegas.

The single-vehicle crash happened at 11:19 p.m. on Durango Drive south of the intersection with Reno Avenue, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement Saturday.

John Poon was driving a 2017 Yamaha R1 motorcycle south on Durango Drive. Witnesses said he traveled over a rough portion of the road, lost control of the motorcycle, struck a curb and overturned, police said in the statement.

Poon and the motorcycle slid into a metal fence and landscape materials, and came to rest in a parking lot on a west side of Durango Drive.

Poon was transported to University Medical Center Trauma with life-threatening injuries.

The crash is under investigation by the LVMPD Collision Investigation Section.

Contact Julie Wootton-Greener at jgreener@reviewjournal.com or (702) 387-2921. Follow @julieswootton on Twitter.

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