At around 2:50 p.m. Thursday, two vehicles crashed in the intersection of South Boulder Highway and East Russell Road. A power box was struck; traffic signals were knocked out.
A passenger in one of the vehicles was killed.
Four hours later, after Jackson State had kicked off to UNLV in the college football season opener, football fans and other people still were sitting in traffic on Boulder Highway and Galleria Drive and Broadbent Boulevard and Wiesner Way. They were trying to access the dusty parking lots at Sam Boyd Stadium in a roundabout way.
Judging from the gravel spewing from their tires when they were told to turn around by men wearing yellow traffic vests, they did not appear happy.