W Sahara Ave

W Sahara Avenue is one of Las Vegas’s most important east-west corridors, running from the Spring Mountains all the way through to I-15 and beyond. For locals in the western neighborhoods, Sahara is often the fastest route downtown and to the Strip. The stretch near Las Vegas Boulevard — where Sahara crosses the casino corridor — is particularly complex: casino driveways, pedestrian crossings, bus stops, and through-traffic all competing for the same limited road space.

The unusual pattern on W Sahara: injuries (1,192) exceed crashes (1,163) — one of only a handful of corridors in the dataset where this occurs. Three fatalities, all concentrated in 2024, after zero in both 2022 and 2023 — a concerning reversal of what had been an encouraging fatality-free run. The crash trend is slowly improving (400, 391, 372), but the injury trend is worsening (370, 417, 405), suggesting crashes are becoming more severe even as they become slightly less frequent.