LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – A wrong way warning alert system picked up a driver at Kyle Canyon getting on U.S. 95 northbound, heading the wrong way southbound. Video from December 9, 2023, shows the car passing a couple other cars on the exit ramp. It later collided with two other cars on the 95 at Elkhorn. The wrong way driver, 50-year-old Antonia Apton, died as did a person in another car, 63-year-old Karen Foote. Three-year-old Jaya Brooks from Las Vegas, also died in a third car.
The grandmother of Jaya Brooks, Andrea Raney, says the video was difficult to watch.
“I was angry. I wanted to jump in there and bust all her tires out. I was angry. I couldn’t keep a thought straight in my head after that,” said Andrea Raney.
FOX5 News obtained the video from NDOT after a public records request. NDOT sent video from other wrong way alert system cameras. Video shows cars going past flashing wrong way warning signs at Skye Canyon Park Drive on the exit ramp. They then continued driving and made it onto the 95 in the wrong direction, in some instances. But video also shows vehicles turning around on the exit ramp and not getting onto the 95 the wrong way.
Another clip of video shows a driver who went past flashing wrong ways signs at Starr Avenue and making it onto I-15 in the wrong direction. It is unknow what happened once cars entered the I-15 and the 95 going the wrong direction.
Andrea Raney says she wants people to pay attention and use caution when they’re driving.
“You have a split second, even maybe less than that to make a decision that can negatively or positively impact people’s lives,” said Raney.
After looking at the video, Raney says she would like to see the flashing lights on the backside of the wrong way warning signs. That way, not only will wrong way drivers see them but so will drivers who approach a wrong way driver. Raney says she would also like to see additional flashing warning signs, prior to an exit ramp, so people can take the next exit and hopefully avoid a wrong way driver altogether.
Raney also says driving around the valley can be confusing. She says if anyone sees something that’s confusing, or is a hazard, to report it to authorities, so it can be addressed.
NDOT has wrong way warning alert system signs up on U.S. 95/I-11 at Durango, as well ask Kyle and Skye Canyon and Starr Avenue at I-15. NDOT is planning to put 12 more wrong way driver warning sign systems from downtown Las Vegas at the Spaghetti Bowl, to the Summerlin area.
NDOT doesn’t have the total number of drivers who either turned around or made it onto a highway the wrong way at those areas. But it does say pilot program in 2020, mostly in Northern Nevada, resulted in 87 percent of drivers turning around and then traveling in the correct direction, when they encountered the wrong way warning signs.
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