LAS VEGAS -- A small plane carrying two people crashed near a busy intersection in Las Vegas at around 3 p.m. on Sunday, but no one was hurt, police said.

The plane's engine apparently lost power, causing it to clip a couple of light poles and lose fuel, said police Lt. Clint Nichols.

The plane, en route to Utah, crashed near the intersection of Rancho Drive and Jones Boulevard, he said. The two people in the plane got out of the wreckage on their own.

The only damage to the area was that light poles were uprooted and some bushes were burnt by plane fuel, he said.

"No houses, no nothing," Nichols said. "It could not have gone, for a plane crash, any better."

Traffic was temporarily brought to a halt in the area.