TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular rugby player who died in a stag do horror crash in Las Vegas.
Chris Moran, 32, was killed instantly after being struck by a lorry as he crossed a freeway in Sin City with pals at 5am on Friday.
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Sales director Chris, of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, suffered catastrophic injuries and died upon impact, according to US police.
The southbound I-15, which runs through the main strip, was shut off between Flamingo Road and Tropicana Avenue while emergency services tended to Chris.
Cops and witnesses tried to administer first aid at the roadside, but he was pronounced dead.
Last night, his devastated girlfriend, Georgia Cooke, said: “I don’t even have the words of how I’m feeling right now.
“I can’t believe I am writing this, I am so sorry this has happened to you.
“We had so many plans for our future. I’m just so heartbroken that those won’t happen anymore.
“You are so, so loved by everyone – I hope you realised that.
“I really don’t know what I am going to do without you, I feel so lost, you brought me so much happiness.”
She told how the couple were excited to be moving to a new home.
Chris’s brother, Sam, said: “It is breaking my heart writing this.
“I keep expecting you to show your mug at some point and I prayed all day that you would.
“We probably couldn’t have been further apart distance wise if we tried when it happened which makes all this so much more painful.
“I love you so much baby bro.”
His brother John added: “Just doesn’t seem real and don’t think it ever will, my brother, my best friend.
“My life will never be the same, you really were one in a million.”
In a statement his local rugby club, Westgate Common, said: “Chris was genuinely one of a kind, with an aura around him wherever he went.
“As a loyal supporter, sponsor, player and friend of Westgate, he will forever be with us.”
His colleagues at Find My Car paid tribute to his “boundless enthusiasm, unwavering dedication, and contagious optimism”.
A fundraising page set up to cover the costs of repatriating his body has already raised more than £30,000 in donations.
Nevada State Police are investigating the accident.
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