EMERY COUNTY, Utah, May 2, 2019 (Gephardt Daily) — Officials have identified a man who died after a “near head-on collision” between two semis on U.S. Highway 6 in Emery County Tuesday morning.
The deceased is Joseph L. Black Jr., 51, from El Paso, Texas, the Utah Highway Patrol said in a news release.
The incident occurred at mile post 279 between Price and Green River just before 4 a.m., a previous news release said.
“A westbound semi tractor-trailer crossed the center line of the highway and struck an eastbound semi tractor-trailer in a near head-on collision,” the news release said.
The westbound driver, later identified as Black, was killed, the news release said.
The eastbound driver sustained non life-threatening injuries and the co-driver was uninjured.
The highway was closed for a period of time as a result of one of the vehicles involved coming to a rest in the travel lane.
