Las Vegas, Nevada: Motorcyclist Killed in Crash at Tropicana Avenue and Spencer Street

LAS VEGAS, Nevada. A motorcyclist was killed on Thursday morning in a crash with a vehicle at the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Spencer Street, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said.

The crash was reported at 9:29 a.m. on Thursday, November 12, in the Paradise area of the Las Vegas Valley, south of the Strip. Police said the intersection was being shut down and was expected to stay closed for a couple of hours while officers investigated. The work ran longer than that first estimate. The crossing stayed closed for hours on Thursday morning, and drivers were detoured around the area while collision investigators worked at the scene.

What police have said, and what they have not

Police gave out few details on Thursday. The department did not release the name, age or gender of the rider who died, and it released no information about the driver of the other vehicle. Police also did not say what led up to the collision or whether the other driver was injured. The crash remains under investigation, and police have announced no arrests or citations in it.

Police gave no timing on Thursday for the release of the rider's name. In Metro fatal cases the name comes from the Clark County Coroner's Office after family members are notified, and that step had not been announced by Thursday evening. Anyone who saw the crash or has information about it is asked to contact the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, police said.

The third rider killed this week

KLAS reported that the death was the third fatality involving a motorcyclist in the Las Vegas Valley this week. Two other motorcyclists died in separate crashes earlier in the week, according to the KLAS count, before the Thursday morning collision at Tropicana and Spencer. The three deaths came in four days, in separate crashes in different parts of the valley, and no police statement has tied any one of them to another.

Tropicana Avenue is one of the main east and west roads in the southeast valley, and Spencer Street is a busy north and south crossing that serves neighborhoods and shopping in Paradise. A full closure at that crossing on a weekday morning pushed traffic onto side streets for hours while investigators worked.

The investigation continues, and the department is still asking anyone who was near the crossing on Thursday morning to contact police with what they saw.