I-15 North & Sahara Ave Exit Ramp

The Sahara Avenue exit from I-15 North drops drivers into one of the busiest transition zones in the city — from freeway speed to the surface street grid serving the north Strip, Stratosphere area, and mid-city Sahara commercial corridor. The deceleration zone is shorter than drivers expect, particularly when freeway traffic is heavy. The ramp feeds directly onto Sahara where immediate signal timing means some drivers are stopping from near-freeway speeds within a few hundred feet of exiting.

111 crashes with zero fatalities. The pattern is unusual: 56 in 2022, a sharp drop to 16 in 2023, then a rebound to 39 in 2024. The 2023 figure is so low it suggests a specific temporary factor. The 2024 rebound toward prior baseline suggests the underlying conditions weren’t resolved by whatever changed in 2023. Hit-and-runs at 23% follow the elevated freeway-ramp pattern.