Car crashes into Las Vegas casino

Posted on February 04, 2010 by CasinoBazar

A 70-year-old man told police he fainted before his speeding car plowed into a Nevada casino, killing two people near a bank of slot machines and injuring at least eight other people.

Las Vegas police officer Rivera said witnesses saw the four-door vehicle speed through a red light, cross Casino Drive and down a 150-foot horseshoe-shaped driveway into the front doors of the 26-story hotel about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. A hotel executive said he was told the vehicle was traveling faster than 60 mph. A rescuer who arrived about 10 minutes after the wreck said the 2,700-pound car crashed through glass doors and came to rest perhaps 35 feet inside the building — between the hotel registration desk and a casino cashier cage.

"Slot machines were just everywhere, just wiped out, tumbled and tossed," said Bill Kinsey, fire division chief in Bullhead City, Ariz., across the river from Laughlin. One of the people killed was wedged beneath the vehicle and slot machines, Kinsey said. Another was near the rear of the vehicle. Kinsey said he believed casino security cameras captured the entire episode. Rivera said police would impound casino security videotapes as evidence.

"It's going to be instrumental in determining what happened out here," the police spokesman said. Kinsey said vehicle air bags deployed, and the driver received only minor injuries. Police identified the driver as Walter McGie of Kelso, Wash. None of the victims were identified.  Authorities said McGie was jailed on two counts of felony reckless driving causing death.

Source: Yahoo.com