Officials released information Monday about two additional fatal crashes on Utah's highways, both of which occurred Sunday.
The first occurred around 1:45 a.m. on I-70, near the junction with U.S. Highway 6/191 and about five miles west of Green River in Emery County.
According to Utah Highway Patrol, an eastbound Ford pickup truck that was towing a trailer with three vehicles on it had pulled over onto the right-side emergency lane to check the load. A 2015 Kia Sportage that was also heading east drifted into the right emergency lane"for an unknown reason," UHP said, and crashed into the trailer.
The driver and two children in the back seat were airlifted to area hospitals with severe injuries. The passenger in the front seat, a man whose name was not released, died at the scene.
A female, whose name or age were not released, was found in the driver's seat without a seat belt. She was pronounced dead at the scene.Just two days prior, three men were killed in three separate accidents on Utah roads. 48-year-old Guy Tannehill from Clearfield was killed Friday morning during a multi-vehicle crash involving a concrete pump truck in Weber County.
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