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Three Seriously Injured After Train/Car Accident
An accident Monday involving a commuter-rail train and a vehicle left three hospitalized. The train was traveling north between Old Mill Lane and 600 West. Authorities initially believed that there had been multiple cars involved in the accident but later found that...
Bicyclist Killed Waiting For TRAX Train.
A bicyclist fell off of a TRAX platform Monday and was killed by a train. A TRAX train was heading westbound from the platform at 1740 W. Research Way. It doesn’t seem to be clear yet what caused the man to fall but West Valley Police Sgt Mike Powell did advice...
Driving Under The Influence Knows No Boundaries
A landscape company worker was mowing the lawn Tuesday on Salt Lake’s 1300 South near the 2100 East intersection when a car hit him. The driver of the vehicle, 60-year-old Arlene Hinich was driving west when she suddenly veered into the man. He was initially...
Conference Held To Encourage Safe Teen Driving
The Utah Department of Health held a press conference called “Zero Fatalities,” in an attempt to persuade teens to drive safer. In 2010 alone, 25 Utah teens died in car crashes. The families of these teens were present during the conference and spoke about their...
Woman Critically Injured After Three-Car Accident
An accident is under investigation after a 40-year-old woman was hit and later hospitalized in critical condition. The three-car accident began when, according to Salt Lake city police detective Cary Wichman, the woman was traveling east on 800 South and was hit by a...
Teen driver killed in crash
A 17-year-old female driver was killed Monday afternoon in West Jordan in a T-bone car accident. The accident occurred on New Bingham Highway near 5100 W where police say the teen driver pulled out in front of a pickup trick.The pickup T-boned the teen's vehicle,...
Teen Pedestrian Hit By Car
A car hit a 15-year-old girl in West Jordan Monday morning in front of Heartland Elementary School. The girl, whose name was not released, was walking across a crosswalk at 6:50am in dark clothing when the car hit her. There was no crossing guard on duty during that...
Risky Wednesday: Five Crashes In 21 Minutes
Wednesday morning began with a crash on I-15 and ended with a total of five accidents in 21 minutes. The first two crashes of the morning occurred at 7a.m. involving a semi-trailer rig and several cars heading northbound on the I-15 near 7200 South. The next involved...
Driver charged after hitting 6-year-old pedestrian
After hitting a 6-year-old girl last week, Highland man Joseph Mitchell Pantos has been charged for possession of a controlled substance and driving under the influence. The accident occurred in Duchesne when Pantos failed to yield to two pedestrians at a crosswalk...
Woman dies in rollover accident
A woman died in a rollover accident last week in Big Cottonwood Canyon after her jeep cut across several lanes of traffic and rolled into Big Cottonwood Creek. She was accompanied by an adult male passenger, was driving down the canyon after 3 pm when she evidently...