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Clark County coroner IDs driver who died transporting fireworks

Officials have identified the victim of a fatal rollover crash that shut down U.S. Highway 95 for several hours near Searchlight Monday morning as a 31-year-old man.

Travon Martin, whose home town was not known, was pronounced dead around 9:30 a.m. after the white van he was in rolled onto its side while carrying illegal fireworks northbound on the highway, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol and Clark County coroner’s office.

The coroner’s office ruled the cause of death as blunt force trauma and the manner of death as an accident.

The crash was first reported around 4:50 a.m. about 15 miles north of Searchlight, but the highway was closed for several hours for “hazardous material removal,” Highway Patrol said in a tweet Monday morning at 6:39 a.m.

Contact Sabrina Schnur at sschnur@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0278. Follow @sabrina_schnur on Twitter.

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