According to Nevada Highway Patrol, a man lost his leg in a Sunday morning crash on northbound U.S. Highway 95.
They say that they responded to the accident just before 5:30 a.m. when a vehicle traveling northbound on the 95 hit one wall, then continued toward the Martin Luther King exit and struck a second wall.
NHP Trooper Loy Hixson said that the passenger then got out of the car and was hit by a passing vehicle. His leg was severed at the scene and he was taken to University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, but was in stable condition just before 10:30 a.m.
The woman who was driving the vehicle which the man fled the scene but was later found and arrested on suspicion of DUI.
The man who was driving the first vehicle is also suspected of driving under the influence, Hixson said.
The 95 was shut down at the I-15 interchange, just east of MLK, until about 10 a.m. while officers investigated the crash.
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