Motorcyclist Killed in I-15 exit ramp in Las Vegas Leading to Hours of Lockdown on all four ramps at Spring Mountain Road and Interstate 15
Following the death of a man in a motorcycle accident on Wednesday, the Nevada Highway Patrol closed all four ramps at Spring Mountain Road and Interstate 15 for many hours.
Nevada State Police Trooper Shawn Haggstrom reported that when state troopers arrived at the site of the single motorcycle crash on the eastbound exit ramp of Spring Mountain on I-15 at 12:52 p.m., the driver had been pronounced dead.
For five to six hours, the eastbound, westbound, northbound, and southbound ramps at Spring Mountain and the highway were closed, which had an impact on local rush hour traffic, according to Haggstrom.
Location Facts
he Spring Mountains are a mountain range of Southern Nevada in the United States, running generally northwest–southeast along the west side of Las Vegas and south to the border with California.
Most land in the mountains is owned by the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management and managed as the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
The Spring Mountains divide the Pahrump Valley and Amargosa River basins from the Las Vegas Valley watershed, which drains into the Colorado River watershed, by way of Las Vegas Wash into Lake Mead, thus the mountains define part of the boundary of the Great Basin.
The Great Basin Divide, (one of the Great Basin region borders) continues north through the Indian Springs Pass region, then turns due east at the perimeter mountain ranges north of Las Vegas.
