LAS VEGAS, Nevada — A 75-year-old Las Vegas man who was struck by an SUV while crossing a west-valley street in a marked crosswalk has died of his injuries three weeks later, and his death has been recorded as the 100th traffic-related fatality of 2026 in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's jurisdiction, police said in an update publicised on Tuesday, October 27.
Source: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, via Las Vegas Focal
The victim was identified as Roland Bame, 75. The Clark County Coroner's Office notified police investigators on October 22 that Bame had died at University Medical Center, where he had been treated since the October 1 crash, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD). Police confirmed the death publicly on October 27.
Source: News 3 Las Vegas / LVMPD, via Vegas Daily Wire
What happened on October 1 on South Torrey Pines Drive
The crash happened shortly after 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 1, on South Torrey Pines Drive at West Celeste Avenue, north of Alta Drive, in the west Las Vegas valley, police said in their original report on the collision. Bame was crossing Torrey Pines Drive in a marked crosswalk when a southbound 2000 Honda CR-V struck him.
Investigators said the driver failed to see Bame and did not stop in time. The front of the Honda struck Bame on his right side and sent him south onto the roadway before the vehicle came to a sudden stop, according to the police account of the preliminary investigation. Emergency medical personnel took him to the University Medical Center Trauma Center with life-threatening injuries, and he was admitted for continued life-saving treatment.
The driver of the Honda remained at the scene and showed no signs of impairment, police said. A passenger in the Honda was not injured. No arrest or citation was announced in the police reports on the crash, and the LVMPD Collision Investigation Section took over the investigation, as it does in serious and fatal collisions in Metro's jurisdiction.
Three weeks in hospital, and a coroner's call on October 22
Bame remained in hospital for three weeks. The Coroner's Office notification on October 22 is the formal point at which a crash that began as a life-threatening-injury case became a fatality case in Metro's records — which is why a death that occurred on October 22 was confirmed to the public on October 27, and why it carries the round number of 100 in the department's running count for the year.
Metro police count every traffic death in their jurisdiction — drivers, passengers, motorcyclists and people on foot. Reaching 100 before the end of October, with two months of the year still to run, underlines why pedestrian deaths on wide valley arterials such as Torrey Pines Drive remain one of Las Vegas's most persistent public-safety problems.
Pedestrians are nearly half of Metro's road deaths
The wider figures explain why a single crosswalk death draws department-wide attention. In an update reported by News 3 Las Vegas earlier this month, Metro said there had been 97 traffic fatalities through October 13, and that 47 of the dead were pedestrians and 24 were motorcyclists or moped riders — meaning people outside cars accounted for the large majority of those killed. Metro officials noted at the time that the overall toll was declining compared with recent years, even after six people lost their lives in less than a week in mid-October.
Torrey Pines Drive is a busy north–south arterial through residential west Las Vegas, lined with homes, schools and shopping areas where older residents routinely cross on foot. Police reporting on this case gives the recurring pattern in its plainest form: a marked crosswalk, an early-evening hour shortly after 7 p.m., and a driver who, by the department's own account, failed to see the person crossing until it was too late. For Punjabi and other diaspora families living across the Las Vegas valley — including the many who work in hospitality, transport and small business and travel these arterials at shift-change hours — the case is a reminder that the valley's most dangerous journeys are often the shortest ones, made on foot near home.
What is solid
- Roland Bame, 75, was struck on October 1 in a marked crosswalk on South Torrey Pines Drive at West Celeste Avenue and died on October 22 at University Medical Center
- Police said the 2000 Honda CR-V's driver failed to see him, remained at the scene and was not impaired; a passenger was uninjured
- LVMPD counts Bame's death as the 100th traffic-related fatality in its jurisdiction in 2026
- Through October 13, Metro had recorded 97 traffic deaths, including 47 pedestrians, according to News 3 Las Vegas
What is only claimed
- No final fault or citation decision has been announced — the Collision Investigation Section's work was still described as continuing in police reporting
- Year-end comparisons are incomplete: Metro said the toll was declining versus recent years, but the count has since reached 100 with two months left in 2026
What happens next
The LVMPD Collision Investigation Section's investigation remains the next step: its findings will settle the official record of how the crash happened and whether any citation or charge follows. Police have announced no arrest in this case. Anyone with information about a Metro traffic investigation can reach the department's Collision Investigation Section, and anonymous tips in Las Vegas cases can also go to Crime Stoppers of Nevada. Awaaz Punjab will update this story if police release the investigation's outcome.