District Attorney Steve Wolfson had a message Monday after another weekend with a suspected DUI death: hit the brakes, Las Vegas.
“I’m going to issue a challenge to our viewers, and that challenge is to slow down,” Wolfson said. “I mean, I drive these freeways every single day, and I drive the speed limit, and I challenge Las Vegas to slow down. You know, think about the kinds of lives you are hurting. You are killing people. You are ruining people’s lives, not just the people you injure in a traffic collision.”
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Wolfson has seen more than his share of DUI crashes, including one just outside Arbor View High School in May that killed McKenzie Scott, a senior just about to graduate and another in 2022 in North Las Vegas that killed seven members of a family.
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He says the growing death toll shows one thing is explicitly clear: “You know, I’ve said it many times, what we’re doing now isn’t working, so we’ve got to do something different to deter people from driving while impaired.”…