Las Vegas Police Officer Killed in Crash with Wrong-Way Driver

Dec. 12, 2024

Las Vegas Police Officer Colton Pulsipher, who was heading home following a shift, was fatally struck by a wrong-way driver while traveling on Interstate 15.

By Tony Garcia and Noble Brigham

Source Las Vegas Review-Journal

Las Vegas Police Officer Colton Pulsipher.

A 29-year-old Metropolitan Police Department officer was one of the two people who died in a crash with a wrong-way driver Thursday morning northeast of Las Vegas.

Officer Colton Pulsipher was heading home in his vehicle after a shift when a wrong-way driver hit him, according to Metro.

The crash was reported just after 12:25 a.m. on northbound Interstate 15 and mile marker 75, near the Valley of Fire/Tribal Plaza Exit, according to a Nevada Highway Patrol release.

Pulsipher and another man died on scene and a woman was transported by Mercy Air with non-life threatening injuries.

All northbound travel lanes are closed down at I-15 and mile marker 75. All northbound traffic is being diverted off onto exit 75, and motorists can get turned around to go southbound on IR15 or they can continue through the Valley of Fire Roadway north. All I-15 southbound travel lanes will remain open and will not have any closures.

Pulsipher was assigned to the traffic bureau’s tourist safety division, police said. He leaves a wife and three children.

Police said in a news release that the department was “mourning the loss” of Pulsipher.

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