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George Frazier, 71, dead, and Margaret Frazier, 68, injured when pickup rear-ends SUV on Interstate 80 near Coalville, Utah

Date:

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Area:

Margaret Frazier was driving a Dodge Ram pickup when her vehicle collided with a slow-moving GMC Envoy SUV that was suffering from a mechanical issue. The pickup smashed into the SUV, critically injuring Margaret Frazier and ejecting her husband, George Frazier, who was a passenger in the pickup. George died at the scene. Margaret was wearing a seatbelt, but George was not. The driver of the SUV, 39-year-old Robert Cole, was not hurt.

Aliilotolelei Vaofusi forced to escape vehicle after getting rear-ended by Nichole Weems and causing vehicle to catch fire on I-15 in Draper, Utah

Date:

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Area:

Salt Lake City, UT

A vehicle caught fire Saturday morning after a driver crashed into a car while driving on I-15. The incident happened on the southbound lanes as one car slowed down with traffice and the other did not, which caused one vehicle to rear-end the other. The incident caused Aliilotolelei Vaofusi to escape their vehicle as it caught on fire. the driver that hit Vaofusi, Nichole Weems, was arrested for suspicion of driving while under the influence.

James P. Pickett, 83, dead after being rear-ended in car accident on Interstate 15 near Portage, UT

Date:

Friday, October 17, 2014

Area:

Salt Lake City, UT

An Idaho man has died in a crash between two pickup trucks Friday evening. The man was identified as James P. Pickett. A Dodge pickup truck, southbound on I-15, drove up behind a slower-moving Ford pickup at 5:15 p.m., about 14 miles south of the Utah-Idaho border. The Dodge crashed into the Ford, propelling the Ford down an embankment on the right side of the road. The Ford pickup crashed through a fence, into a tree and continuing forward, hit a propane tank, the corner of a house and a parked car before coming to a stop. The driver of the Ford, Pickett, died at scene, according to UHP.

58-year-old man and 56-year-old woman on motorcycle injured after being rear-ended by UHP trooper near Wendover, UT

Date:

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Area:

Salt Lake City, UT

The man who was driving the motorcycle only sustained minor injuries and was taken to the University of Utah Hospital via ambulance. The woman was airlifted to the same hospital with facial lacerations but is expected to be okay.

Man injured, flown to hospital, after his car rear-ends semi truck on I-84 in Ogden, Utah

Date:

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Area:

Salt Lake City, UT

A semi pulling a box trailer was traveling westbound Friday on I-84, when it experienced some mechanical issues. The driver pulled to the right side of the road partially blocking the I-84 on-ramp from Mountain Green. A Honda Accord, was traveling west on the I-84 on-ramp, when for an unknown reason the driver of the Honda did not see the semi and crashed into the rear of the semi-trailer. A medical helicopter was called to the scene. The westbound lanes of I-84 were shut down for approximately 30 min while the helicopter was on scene.

Teenager seriously injured when her car collides with school bus on Highway 89/91 in Logan, Utah

Date:

Monday, December 16, 2013

Area:

Salt Lake City, UT

A 17-year-old girl was seriously injured Tuesday morning when she collided with the rear end of a school bus on foggy Highway 89/91 in Cache County. Logan police said the accident report came in at 7:37 a.m. from the area of 800 West and 1700 South. A girl was driving an Oldsmobile Alero westbound on 800 West and because of dense fog did not see the stop sign at the road’s intersection with the highway. She went into the intersection and collided with the rear of the bus, which was carrying more than a dozen children to Adams Elementary School in Logan, police said.