BLUFFDALE, Utah, June 29, 2017 (Gephardt Daily) — Two people were injured, one seriously, late Thursday afternoon when the driver of a Nissan Pathfinder failed to notice that traffic was stopping for a red light.
Bluffdale Police Officer Carl Haner told Gephardt Daily that the accident occurred shortly before 5:30 p.m. when the Pathfinder rear-ended a Jeep Wrangler that had stopped for the red light at 2700 W. Bangerter Highway.
Haner said both drivers were transported to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray. The driver of the Wrangler was not seriously injured, Haner said, but the driver of the Pathfinder had not been wearing a seat belt and was in serious condition.
Haner said, “The take-away from this is the importance of seat belts. Even the doctor at the hospital said (the driver’s) injuries would have been so much less if he had been wearing his seat belt.”
The accident is still under investigation and police were waiting to talk to the driver of the Pathfinder. The names of the drivers were not available.
Haner said traffic was backed up almost to Interstate 15 until the vehicles were cleared off the road.
