WOODS CROSS, Utah, May 19, 2018 (Gephardt Daily) — An 18-year-old woman was transported to the hospital in critical condition Saturday morning after a head-on collision.
The young woman was driving a 1993 Ford Festiva south on Redwood Road at about 1400 South, Officer Robbie Davis, Woods Cross Police Department, told Gephardt Daily.
She veered to the right, then over-corrected to the left, crossing into the opposite lane, Davis said. She struck a Ford Expedition, driven by a mother and carrying her three teenage children.
Police were called to the scene at 9:17 a.m., and transported the younger woman to Intermountain Medical Center.
The occupants of the Expedition suffered only “bumps and bruises,” Davis said, and left the scene when the family’s father came to pick them up.
Davis said that all were wearing seat belts, as far as he knows, but the younger woman’s Festiva was not equipped with an airbag.
“I know they existed in 1993, but maybe they weren’t used on a base model, or whatever it was.”
Davis said investigators are considering distracted driving, such as the use of a cell phone, as a possible reason the woman left her lane.
