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'Click it or Ticket' campaign kicks off today
Coinciding with the Memorial Day weekend, the annual nationwide “Click it or Ticket” seat belt awareness and enforcement campaign begins today and goes through June 3, 2012. During this two-week timeframe, state troopers, sheriff’s deputies, and police officers will be joining forces and placing a high priority on this vitally ...
Woman killed in single vehicle accident
RENO -- Police are investigating a single vehicle roll-over crash that claimed the life of one woman and sent her sister to a local hospital with what are believed to be minor injuries. Reno Police received a call at around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday night reporting a crash on Sky ...
Federal Transit Administration announces $5.1 Mil to enhance Bus Rapid Transit service
RENO -- Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff today announced that the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Washoe County received a $5.1 million grant to purchase new hybrid-electric buses and build a new fueling station. The improvements will enhance bus rapid transit service for the growing number of riders who are ...
RTC 'A Rapid Way to Ride' opening tomorrow
RENO -- The Regional Transportation Commission will be celebrating the completion of their RTC RAPID Stations Project along the Virginia Street corridor. The RTC RAPID route, which primarily operates on Virginia Street, now features 14 new RTC RAPID stations. RTC is introducing two new station stops on Center Street at ...
Vehicle strikes flag person on Virginia City highway
RENO -- A man is in Police custody after he allegedly struck a construction zone flagger after they had an altercation. This morning at around 6:43 a.m., Nevada Highway Patrol was dispatched to a Flag Person that was struck by a Vehicle that had on SR 341 the Virginia City ...
Fatal accident after pedestrian is struck by vehicle
RENO -- A man is dead as a result of a vehicle vs. pedestrian accident that occurred last night on Kietzke Lane. Last night at around 10:30 p.m., officers from the Reno Police Department responded to Kietzke Lane & Gentry Way on a report of a vehicle versus pedestrian ...
Car rental companies putting drivers in unsafe cars?
Some rental car companies are being called criminal today for putting consumers in potentially unsafe vehicles. U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer is demanding rental cars under a safety recall be fixed, or pulled from lots before they're rented or sold. She sent letters to top rental car companies urging them to ...
Police targeting pedestrian related crimes this week
SPARKS -- The Sparks Police Department will be joining other local agencies in a pedestrian enforcement event over the next week specifically targeting pedestrians who fail to cross the streets properly and for vehicles who fail to yield to pedestrians. SPD will also have additional officers out during the evening ...
Reduction of fatal accidents in Reno area
RENO -- The Reno Police Department has seen a reduction of fatal accident from 2011 to 2012. The Traffic Division investigated a total of seventeen fatalities for the year of 2011. From January - March of 2011, the Reno Police Department investigated six fatal accidents. So far for 2012 the Traffic Division has ...
Two injured in vehicle accident near Dayton Hill
Two men were transported to the hospital as a result of a vehicle accident that occured earlier this morning near Carson City. This morning at around 4 a.m., the Nevada Highway Patrol was dispatched to an injury accident on US 50 East approximately 4 miles east of Carson City. The ...
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