2 women ID’d in fatal crash near Boulder City
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified two women killed in a crash that also injured four children Wednesday afternoon near Boulder City.
Antonia Pappas, 78, and Christina Rich, 80, were killed, and five others were injured, including four children, according to a Thursday afternoon Nevada Highway Patrol release.
The crash happened when a 2003 Toyota Corolla was driving southbound about 2:10 p.m. on an Interstate 11 offramp approaching U.S. Highway 95. The Toyota didn’t stop at a stop sign at the bottom of the ramp and continued onto U.S. 95, colliding with a 2015 Nissan Sentra, the Highway Patrol said.
All five occupants in the Nissan has serious but nonlife-threatening injuries. The four children in the Nissan — a 12-year-old girl, a 10-year-old boy and two 8-year-old girls — were taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center. The 32-year-old driver was taken to St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus.
Pappas, who lived in Henderson and was driving the Corolla, died at the scene. Rich, from Freeport, New York, a passenger in the Corolla, died at Sunrise Hospital.
Everyone in the crash was properly restrained, the Highway Patrol said. Impairment did not appear to be a factor in the crash, which remained under investigation Thursday.
Contact Alexis Egeland at aegeland@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0335. Follow @alexis_egeland on Twitter. Review-Journal staff writer Katelyn Newberg contributed to this report.
