LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An expert says he believes an improperly installed guardrail may have played a role in a Las Vegas woman’s death last year in drunk driving crash.
Gloria Vega Nava, 41, was a passenger in a vehicle that collided with a guardrail last year on July 5 near the Valley of Fire exit on Interstate 15. A Clark County Grand Jury indicted the driver of that vehicle Jose Guadlupe Mora, 34, with driving under the influence resulting in death and failure to maintain a travel lane, according to court records.
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Photos 8 News Now obtained of the fatal wreck prompted Stephen Eimers to reach out to 8 News Now.
“There’s more to this crash. We have some installation errors. Installation errors that the Federal Highway Administration says are critical,” Eimers, who is also known as the Guardrail Guy, said. “We can often get into a situation where we have a drunk driver. Somebody who has clearly done something wrong. That doesn’t mean that we can’t have another contributing factor here.”
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Eimers’ 17-year-old daughter Hannah died along a Tennessee road in 2016 in a controversial guardrail crash. He said the guardrail didn’t serve its function of absorbing her vehicle’s impact…