CACHE COUNTY, Utah, July 27, 2017 (Gephardt Daily) — Logan police have released the name of a man who died in a head-on collision Wednesday near Wellsville while fleeing from police.
The man who died at the scene was Marcos Torres, 26, of Brigham City.
Torres’ pickup truck hit a semi, seriously injuring its driver. The semi driver has been identified as William Gray of Rigby, Idaho. Gray is a reserve police officer for the Rigby Police Department.
The incident began just after 2 p.m. Wednesday when a trooper spotted a black pickup truck that matched an attempt-to-locate call, the Utah Highway Patrol said in a news release.
“When the trooper tried to pull the car over, it fled,” the news release said. “Troopers continued to follow the pickup truck, but at that point the pickup truck reached a high rate of speed. For an unknown reason the pickup truck crossed the median and collided head-on with a semi-truck.”
The road, U.S. 89/91, was closed for nearly seven hours while officers documented evidence at the scene of the explosive crash.
