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At about 5:15 a.m., a 25-year-old woman that was crossing North Main Street was struck by a pickup truck. She was airlifted to the hospital in critical condition. No other information is currently available; check back for updates.
Utah Highway Patrol identified the body of a man killed on I-80 near Wendover.
Officers say 20-year-old Christian Gutierrez was run over several times.
Troopers say they found his body in the road after responding to a call around 3:30 a.m. Monday morning.
Police are still trying to figure out why he was on the road to begin with.
An autopsy has determined the identity of a man killed in a horrendous auto-pedestrian accident on Interstate 80 near the Utah-Nevada border earlier this week.
Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Todd Royce said the State Medical Examiner’s Office had determined the victim of the early Monday morning accident was 20-year-old Christian Gutierrez, of Wendover.
Why Gutierrez was walking in or near the westbound lanes of I-80 about 1 mile east of Wendover remained unknown, however.
A man died in an auto-pedestrian accident in Tooele Monday morning.
Tooele police Capt. Paul Wimmer said 41-year-old man was walking along the shoulder near Highway 112 and Industrial Loop Road about 7 a.m. when he was struck from behind by a car.
Wimmer said witnesses told officers that the man had been walking on or along the white line, dangerously close to the travel lanes, just prior to being hit.
He was dead at the scene, Wimmer said.