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Sunday, May 18, 2014Area:
Salt Lake City, UTAustin McElyea, 17, also from Santa Clara, was fatally injured just after 5 p.m. Sunday when he was struck from behind by an ATV.
Accident scene investigators with the Utah Highway Patrol report that McElyea was traveling on Spanish Trail Drive when he stopped his dirt bike near 115 North. The driver of an ATV failed to stop, investigators said, and hit the back tire of McElyea's dirt bike.
Even though McElyea was wearing a helmet, he died on scene from injuries sustained in the impact.