Seven victims were from the same family (via toofab)
While speeding was obviously a factor, investigators do not yet know if the driver was impaired or distracted.
Officer Cuevas said it was the worst mass casualty traffic accident in the department's history. According to the, it is the deadliest event in the Las Vegas Valley since the mass shooting on the Strip in October of 2017. North Las Vegas Councilwoman Pamela Goynes-Brown called the incident"a tremendous and unnecessary loss, due to a careless, senseless act.""I lost all my family, my kids, 7 out of those lives lost, there are no words to describe my pain and suffering that I will not be able to hug my children again, my brother and 2 step sons lost their lives, also me and my husband are in so much pain," she wrote.
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