Getting rear-ended on Las Vegas Boulevard or clipped at a light on Craig Road is stressful enough. Working out what to do next, while you are hurt and an insurance adjuster is already calling, is harder. This page pulls together what local crash data actually shows about driving in the Las Vegas valley, the Nevada rules that decide what a claim is worth, and how to find a car accident lawyer who knows Clark County.
Start with the scale. Nevada recorded 412 traffic deaths in 2024, a 5.64 percent rise over 2023 and one of the deadliest years in state records going back to 1991, according to the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety.1 Clark County, home to Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and the Strip, accounted for close to three-quarters of them. For scale, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration counted 40,901 traffic deaths in the entire country in 2023, so one Nevada county carries a striking share of the toll.2
Where crashes cluster in the valley
Ask the North Las Vegas Police Department and one street keeps surfacing. In crash data covering January 2025 through January 2026, Losee Road and East Craig Road logged 104 crashes, the most of any intersection in the city, followed by West Craig Road and Martin Luther King Boulevard with 73. Craig Road appears more often than any other street among the city's highest-crash intersections.3 If your daily drive runs through the Craig corridor, the risk is real and measurable.
Then there is Boulder Highway. Built in 1931 to link downtown Las Vegas with Henderson, it now runs straight through dense neighborhoods, and it has long been the deadliest road in Nevada for people on foot. Since 2006 the corridor has recorded 52 pedestrian deaths, close to 9 percent of every pedestrian death in the state.4 Wide lanes and long distances between crosswalks make it dangerous for anyone trying to cross.
The freeways add their own hazards. The I-15 and US-95 interchange near downtown, the knot locals call the Spaghetti Bowl, moves hundreds of thousands of vehicles a day. The Nevada Department of Transportation is spending $22 million on the I-11 SafeTech project along a five-mile stretch of US-95/I-11 from Summerlin Parkway to the Spaghetti Bowl, installing twelve wrong-way driver alert systems at six interchanges to stop drivers from entering the freeway against traffic.5
Why so many Las Vegas crashes are fatal
Two factors drive the death toll. First is speed and impairment, which the Office of Traffic Safety names as the leading contributors to fatal crashes in Nevada.1 Nationally, NHTSA linked about 29 percent of 2023 traffic deaths to speeding and recorded one alcohol-impaired death every 42 minutes.2
Second is pedestrians. Nevada's pedestrian death rate topped 3 per 100,000 residents in 2024, well above the national rate of about 2.10, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association.6 The state counted 112 pedestrian deaths that year.1 Long arterials like Boulder Highway and stretches with no sidewalk put people in traffic's path after dark, when most fatal pedestrian crashes happen.
What Las Vegas and Nevada are doing
The city of Las Vegas adopted a Vision Zero plan in 2022, aiming to end traffic deaths by 2050, and has secured more than $45 million to rebuild its worst locations, the streets planners call the High Injury Network.7
On Boulder Highway the work is visible. A metal center fence between Nellis Boulevard and Flamingo Road, started in October 2024, cut pedestrian deaths on that segment from about five a year to zero.8 Henderson has switched on 400 new streetlights along its portion of the road, and the Reimagine Boulder Highway project, which broke ground in August 2024, is rebuilding roughly 15 miles from Charleston Boulevard to Wagonwheel Drive with pedestrians in mind.8
None of that undoes a crash that already happened. When you have been hit, Nevada law decides what comes next.
The Nevada laws that shape your claim
You generally have two years from the date of a crash to file a personal injury lawsuit in Nevada, under NRS 11.190(4)(e). Claims for vehicle and property damage get three years under NRS 11.190(3).9 Miss the deadline and a court can dismiss the case no matter how serious your injuries.
Nevada splits fault by percentage. Under the modified comparative negligence rule in NRS 41.141, you can recover money as long as your share of the blame is not greater than the other driver's, and your award is reduced by your own percentage of fault.10 Found 20 percent responsible, a $100,000 award becomes $80,000. Cross 51 percent and you recover nothing, which is why insurers work so hard to shift blame onto you.
Check the coverage in play. Nevada requires drivers to carry at least $25,000 for injury to or death of one person, $50,000 per crash, and $20,000 for property damage, the minimums set by NRS 485.185.11 Those limits are thin against a hospital bill, so the uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage on your own policy often matters more than the at-fault driver's.
Reporting is the step people forget. If a crash causes injury, death, or at least $750 in property damage and police do not respond to the scene, Nevada requires you to file an SR-1 report with the DMV within 10 days.12 Skip it and you can lose your license.
Finding the right car accident lawyer in Las Vegas
"Top-rated" should mean more than a billboard on the 215. Look for a lawyer who actually tries cases in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County, who can talk specifically about the road or intersection where you were hit, and who will walk you through how comparative negligence and your own UM/UIM coverage apply before you sign anything. Ask how often they take crash cases to trial instead of settling fast, and whether the attorney you meet is the one who will handle your file.
You can compare local attorneys and their focus areas in the thatcarhitme.com legal directory. Most Las Vegas car accident lawyers work on contingency, meaning they are paid only if you recover, so a first consultation usually costs nothing but your time.
In the meantime, get checked by a doctor even if you feel fine, photograph the scene and the other vehicle's plate, save the police event number, and write down what you remember while it is fresh. Those records are what turn one person's word against another's into a claim an adjuster has to respect.
This article is general information, not legal advice. For guidance about your own crash, speak with a licensed Nevada attorney.
Sources
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Nevada Office of Traffic Safety / Zero Fatalities Nevada, 2024 statewide fatality report. https://zerofatalitiesnv.com/
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities in 2023. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813561
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North Las Vegas Police Department crash data (January 2025 to January 2026), reported by News3LV. https://news3lv.com/news/local/top-crash-locations-identified-in-north-las-vegas
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Las Vegas Sun, Boulder Highway pedestrian deaths and state records. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/mar/03/boulder-highway-pedestrian-safety-gets-renewed-att/
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Nevada Department of Transportation I-11 SafeTech Corridor project, reported by KTNV. https://www.ktnv.com/news/ndot-construction-expected-to-impact-traffic-on-us-95-i-11-from-summerlin-parkway-to-spaghetti-bowl
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Governors Highway Safety Association, Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State: 2024 Data. https://www.ghsa.org/sites/default/files/2025-07/Pedestrian%20Traffic%20Fatalities%20by%20State%20-%202024%20Data%20-%207.10.25.pdf
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City of Las Vegas Vision Zero program, reported by KTNV. https://www.ktnv.com/news/progress-continues-in-vision-zero-program-to-end-traffic-deaths-in-las-vegas-by-2050
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Fox5 Vegas, Boulder Highway safety improvements. https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/05/12/metal-fencing-drops-pedestrian-deaths-zero-portion-boulder-highway/
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Nevada Revised Statutes 11.190. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-011.html
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Nevada Revised Statutes 41.141. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-041.html
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Nevada Revised Statutes 485.185. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-485.html
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Nevada Revised Statutes 484E and Nevada DMV Form SR-1, Report of Traffic Accident. https://dmv.nv.gov/pdfforms/sr1.pdf