AMARGOSA VALLEY, Nev. (AP) - Authorities have identified a 59-year-old man who died after he was injured in an off-road vehicle crash last weekend at a popular southern Nevada sand dune.
The Nye County sheriff’s office said Friday that Steven William Lewis of North Las Vegas wasn’t wearing a helmet and when he crashed May 28 at Amargosa Sand Dunes.
Sheriff’s spokesman Arnold Knightly says autopsy results are pending.
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Witnesses told sheriff’s deputies that Lewis was thrown from a vehicle on a sand dune at the recreation area off U.S. Route 95 about 100 miles (161 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas.
The sand hill is also known as Big Dune. It features a 300-foot (91-meter) crest.
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