PANGUITCH, Utah (AP) — A tour bus crashed on a highway running through the red-rock landscape of southern Utah, killing four people from China and injuring dozens more. On Friday, the bus from of southern California rolled onto a guard rail, crushing its roof and ramming the rail’s vertical posts […]
SKULL VALLEY, Utah (AP) — The Utah Highway Patrol says a wrong-way vehicle caused a head-on crash on Interstate 80 west of metro Salt Lake City. The Highway Patrol shut down I-80 in the Skull Valley area Tuesday morning while landing a helicopter to pick up a person who was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A semi-truck has crashed into a Utah condominium community near the location of a similar crash last year. KUTV-TV reported Thursday that Utah Highway Patrol reported that a semitruck carrying chocolate milk crashed into condos in Garden City about 122 miles (196 kilometers) north of Salt Lake […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Crews are using heavy machinery in several canyons in central Utah where landslides and storm runoff poured mud across roads and highways. The Utah Highway Patrol said flooding late Thursday left several feet of mud on sections of U.S. 6 and that it remained closed […]
WASATCH COUNTY, Utah-Sunday morning around 10:30 am, an ATV rider was killed after colliding with a pickup truck on U.S. Highway 40 near Strawberry Reservoir, per a report from ABC 4 Utah. The Utah Highway Patrol has confirmed the victim as 50-year-old Norman Lange of Rock Springs Wyo. Troopers confirmed […]
THISTLE, Utah (AP) — A 10-mile stretch of a rural highway in central Utah remained closed Saturday after flash flooding from storm runoff sent mud and debris over the roadway. The Utah Department of Transportation said the flooding Friday night closed U.S. 89 south of the junction with U.S. 6 […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a former football player at Weber State University has died after he was booked into a Utah jail. The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office tells the Standard-Examiner that 32-year-old Trevyn Smith was taken to a hospital after he “suffered a medical incident” at the county jail […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials cannot yet determine whether a new drunk driving law has caused a reduction in auto accidents. The Deseret News reported Saturday that Utah Highway Patrol statistics indicate the number of alcohol-related crashes fell in the first quarter of this year. Police could not say if […]
LEEDS, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a driver alone in a vehicle was killed when it struck a horse on Interstate 15 in southwestern Utah. The Highway Patrol says the wreck occurred near Leeds in Washington County early Thursday morning before troopers arrived in response to a report of horses […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Protesters interrupted the board meeting of the Utah Inland Port Authority, resulting in state troopers ejecting dozens of environmental activists and arresting one. The activists with the group Civil Riot started shouting a few seconds into the meeting Wednesday at the Utah Capitol. The meeting […]
