A Clark County woman says she was trapped inside her car for seven hours after utility poles toppled around her in what her lawsuit describes as a cascading, domino-like collapse during the July 2025 windstorm. Kirstin Rachelle Parker has filed a negligence lawsuit against NV Energy in Clark County District Court, seeking damages over the ordeal.
According to the lawsuit, Parker was driving on East Tropicana Avenue near South Pearl Street on July 1, 2025, when the poles began falling around her. She sped up trying to avoid them, the suit says, but a utility pole and live power cables landed directly on top of her car, and she could not exit safely because live cables surrounded the vehicle. As reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Parker waited seven hours for crews to cut the live cables surrounding her car before she could get free.
Parker’s lawsuit alleges NV Energy failed to design, install, inspect, repair or maintain the utility poles reasonably and safely. NV Energy did not respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit, according to the Review-Journal’s report.
A Violent Windstorm Tore Through the Valley
The storm that triggered the incident brought winds reaching 70 mph across the Las Vegas area, according to the Review-Journal. The National Weather Service issued severe-thunderstorm warnings as the system moved through, as noted by USA Today, while 8 News Now reported a dust-storm warning. Separate reporting from 8 News Now put gusts at 60 to 70 mph and said more than 33,000 NV Energy customers lost power early that Tuesday evening…