LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Clark County University District Superintendent Dr. Jesus Jara was concerned in a multivehicle crash in January but Las Vegas Metro law enforcement did not include things like that information and facts in their report because Jara remaining right before targeted traffic officers arrived, the 8 News Now Investigators confirmed Tuesday.
Jara was a passenger in the crash on Jan. 18 on Desert Inn Road near Paradise Road just west of the Las Vegas Strip. Police cited the male driving Jara, Joseph Caruso, for subsequent also carefully. Caruso is mentioned on CCSD’s web site as Jara’s special assistant and liaison to the school board.
The crash transpired when the SUV that Caruso was driving collided with the motor vehicle in entrance of it, which then rear-finished another automobile, paperwork claimed.
Online video the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained Tuesday showed Caruso with a bleeding confront and hand. The airbags in the vehicle deployed.
“The superintendent was touring between meetings when the incident transpired,” a CCSD spokesperson explained. “When all the things appeared risk-free and authorities have been contacted, he departed for his assembly.”
It was unclear wherever Jara was sitting in the automobile as the Metro law enforcement crash report does not point out him at all. The report explained the only occupant was Caruso.
“At no level for the duration of the incident did the visitors officer witness the existence of the CCSD Superintendent Jesus Jara, and no just one on scene stated he was concerned,” a Metro spokesperson verified to the 8 Information Now Investigators.
The online video showed CCSD law enforcement arrived at the crash web-site right before Metro. It is customary for one more law enforcement agency to examine a crash involving an worker of yet another division. Jara oversees CCSD police.
911 phone calls and officer notes the 8 News Now Investigators obtained explained Metro and CCSD police dispatchers had been aware Jara was in the car.
“During the incident you are inquiring about, an LVMPD visitors officer was dispatched to the scene of a visitors accident,” a Metro spokesperson said. “Upon arrival in the place, the visitors officer was recommended by a CCSDPD officer (on [body-worn camera]) that the superintendent may be associated, but neither just one of them had arrived on scene to verify this information. “
The Metro officer did not have accessibility to all those notes while authoring his report, the Metro spokesperson claimed.
It is not illegal for a passenger to leave the scene of a crash. Law enforcement mentioned the driver was not impaired.
