LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Police are investigating a crash that sent one person to the hospital with serious injuries Friday morning and closed a major east valley street.

The crash was reported around 5 a.m. on Nellis Boulevard, south of Charleston Boulevard. According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan police, a driver, suspected of impairment, lost control while driving on Charleston and struck a fence and then a retaining wall, before fleeing the scene on foot. A passenger in the car was transported to a local hospital.

Nellis is closed in both directions, south of Charleston, while police investigate the crash.

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