NINE people died after a car sped through a red light and smashed into five other vehicles in Las Vegas, police said yesterday.

One other person is in critical condition in hospital, following the pile-up in the casino city in Nevada.

“We have not seen a mass-casualty traffic collision like this before,” said North Las Vegas Police Department public information officer Alexander Cuevas.

He told a press conference that at about 3pm, a Dodge Challenger ran a red light at an intersection, moving at “a high rate of speed”.

It then “struck multiple vehicles, causing a chaotic event”, he added, saying the crash involved six vehicles and 15 people.

Nine died, ranging in age from “young juveniles to middle-aged adults”, while one person is in a critical condition in hospital.

Both people inside the Dodge Challenger are among those killed.

North Las Vegas councilman Pamela Goynes Brown, at the same press conference, decried what she called a “careless, senseless act”. – AFP, January 30, 2022.