LAS VEGAS, Nev. — In the last few moments of his young life, James Manor was barreling down Flamingo Road early Thursday, responding to a call on a 14-year-old girl being beaten by her father.

He passed New Forest Drive. Tenaya Way. His squad mate was in a marked patrol car behind him.

Then, as he was approaching Ravenwood Drive, a lifted red Chevrolet pickup turned left into the roadway. Manor braked, steering sharply to the right to get out of the way.

The left front of his car crunched into the right front of the truck and sent it rolling. Manor's car careened into a patch of desert on the side of the street. It caught on fire.

By the time emergency crews tore Manor out of his crumpled vehicle and took him to University Medical Center, he didn't have much time left. He died shortly after.

In the seconds after the 12:49 a.m. crash, a witness saw 45-year-old Calvin Darling maneuver himself out of his overturned pickup, grab a fire extinguisher from the truck bed and try to squelch the flames on Manor's car with dirt and the extinguisher.

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