FARR WEST, Utah, Sept. 11, 2018 (Gephardt Daily) — A crash on northbound Interstate 15 on Tuesday afternoon involved multiple vehicles and sent two people to the hospital with critical injuries.
The collision occurred at about 4 p.m. near milepost 349.
According to a Utah Highway Patrol news release, traffic was slowing and stopped in the No. 3 lane and the right emergency lane on northbound I-15.
A vehicle swerved from the No. 3 lane into the No. 2 lane to avoid the stopped traffic and was hit by a semi that was traveling in the No. 2 lane, the release states.
The semi, which was hauling a flat-bed trailer, then hit several other cars that were stopped in the No.3 and emergency lanes.
The driver of the vehicle that made initial contact with the semi wasn’t properly wearing a seat belt, the release says. That driver was ejected and was then hit by another vehicle, and was transported to McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden in critical condition.
A driver who was in another vehicle involved in the crash also was transported to the hospital in critical condition.
Other people were injured, but none of those injuries was life-threatening.
Most of the roadway was closed for several hours after the crash while troopers investigated the crash. At 5 p.m., northbound traffic was backed up as far as Marriott-Slaterville and spilled over into Ogden, causing rush-hour traffic on Wall Avenue to back up. Cameras also showed that southbound traffic was delayed.
