By Associated Press - Saturday, August 22, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two people were killed and three others injured Saturday when a car went down an embankment after failing to make a curve on a road on Mount Charleston west of Las Vegas, authorities said.

Those killed were the woman driving the car and a man who was a passenger, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.

After striking a guardrail on Kyle Canyon Road, the car went down the embankment and struck a large tree stump and overturned, the Highway Patrol said.



The Highway Patrol said impairment was not suspected.

No identifies were relesed.

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