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A wrecked SUV is driven away on a wrecker from a crash scene on Blue Diamond Road near Fort Apache Road in Las Vegas on Thursday, March 2, 2017. (Brett Le Blanc/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bleblancphoto

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By MAX MICHOR LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

March 2, 2017 - 8:18 am

Updated March 2, 2017 - 9:29 am

One person was seriously injured in a Thursday morning crash in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.

A man driving a Chevy Silverado pickup rear-ended a water truck about 5:40 a.m. near Fort Apache and Blue Diamond roads. The man was airlifted to the University Medical Center’s trauma unit with serious but nonlife-threatening injuries, according to Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Jason Buratczuk.

Northbound lanes of Fort Apache were closed near Blue Diamond while the Highway Patrol investigated the crash.

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