An 18-year-old female passenger died and a male driver was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries following a single-vehicle crash in Henderson early Sunday, FOX5 Vegas reported.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the passenger as 18-year-old Michelle Parker, stating she died from blunt-force injuries and ruling her death an accident, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The Henderson Police Department and Henderson Fire Department responded to calls about the wreck at about 12:30 a.m. on West Horizon Ridge Parkway between Las Palmas Entrada Avenue and Shaded Canyon Drive.
A preliminary investigation found that a Honda Prelude was traveling east on Horizon Ridge Parkway near Gibson Road before the crash. A witness first reported seeing the vehicle traveling at a slow rate of speed, then at a high rate of speed before it struck a light pole near Shaded Canyon Drive.
Officers found two occupants inside the vehicle, and Parker was pronounced dead at the scene. Emergency crews extricated the male driver from the vehicle before transporting him to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Investigators suspect both speed and impairment played a role in the collision. However, the Henderson Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for an update on the driver’s condition, and police have not yet released additional information publicly concerning how the crash unfolded.
The intersection sits along a stretch of Horizon Ridge Parkway that previously saw a fatal single-vehicle crash into a light pole. In a June 30, 2025 incident near Horizon Ridge Parkway and Sandy Ridge Avenue, Henderson police and fire crews responded to a collision where speed was considered a factor while impairment was not.
The driver in that 2025 crash initially survived but later died from injuries, with Henderson Police Fatal Investigators notified of the death on July 30, 2025.
Basic questions remain open about how Sunday’s crash occurred, and investigators have not yet stated further details publicly.
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