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The Utah Highway Patrol is reporting that parts of Highway 6 near Spanish Fork had to be shut down Saturday night due to a car accident. Troopers say a woman drove off the road and crashed into a power line.
Several other power lines collapsed, causing officials to shut down the highway. The road was closed in both directions until the downed power lines were removed. Officials have now re-opened the highway.
A car sliding out of control Wednesday afternoon led to a toppled semi trailer and major delays in Utah County.
At about 3:20 p.m., a white northbound car slammed into the right wall on the side of Interstate 15 between Provo and Springville, the Utah Highway Patrol Trooper said. The car then slide across the freeway and hit the left barriers. As the car was coming to a stop in the middle of the freeway, a semi trailer hauling Xerox copies swerved to miss it and fell over.
Utah Highway Patrol says a fatal accident occurred about 3:10 p.m. Thursday near the mouth of Parleys Canyon.
Steven T. Parker, 46, died after veering his 2005 black Cadillac Escalade SUV off northbound I-215 East by the ramp to take I-80 east. The vehicle went up an embankment, vaulted over the bridge at 3000 South and hit a light pole before landing on the northside embankment of westbound I-80 and catching on fire.