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MORGAN COUNTY, UT: Two semi trailers were involved in a truck accident Sunday morning, February 20, on a highway in Morgan County, Utah. Both of the truck drivers were charged after the collision which occurred on Interstate 84 in an area northeast of the Salt Lake City metro region. The truck accident area is in the far north part of Utah, about 101 miles south of Preston, Idaho and about 90 miles west of Mountain View, Wyoming.

On Sunday morning an unidentified semi driver from Kentucky was driving a flatbed tractor trailer through northern Utah. The flatbed was carrying a load of steel beams at the time of the truck accident. Utah was experiencing heavy winter storms over the weekend and many of the roads were icy and snow covered. ... Read More

TOOELE COUNTY, UT – A truck accident Wednesday afternoon Feb 16, trapped the semi driver in his cab section which was partially submerged in a lake in Tooele County, Utah. High winds likely caused the rollover semi crash which occurred on Interstate 80 close to the juncture with Utah State Road 196. The crash happened near the city of Grantsville on the southwest edge of the Salt Lake City metro region. The truck accident area is in the north central part of Utah, about 78 miles east of West Wendover, Nevada and about 166 miles southwest of Evanston, Wyoming.

Photo by Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune A wrecked semi truck on Interstate 80 eastbound Wednesday February 16, 2011. The semi rolled over into three or four feet of water, according to the Utah Highway Patrol. It rolled over about 12:04 p.m. near mile marker 79 in Tooele County, near State Road 196.

On Wednesday an unidentified truck driver from Salt Lake City was driving a semi trailer through Tooele County, Utah. At the time of the accident the trailer section of the semi was empty and it is thought that the driver may have just delivered his cargo. ... Read More

MOUNTAIN GREEN, UT – A truck driver was charged with Suspicion of Driving Under the Influence after he crashed his semi truck filled with frozen turkeys Saturday morning, August 21, on a highway in Morgan County, Utah. The truck accident occurred in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 84 near the town of Mountain Green, UT. The accident area is in the northeast section of the state about 77 miles north of Provo, UT and about 60 miles southwest of Evanston, Wyoming.

The trailer section broke open and boxes of frozen turkeys tumbled out of the back of the truck.

At around 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning an unidentified man was driving a semi tractor trailer east on Interstate 84 through Weber County, UT. The trailer of the semi truck was filled with a cargo of boxed frozen turkeys. There was one passenger in the trailer truck, a hitchhiker that the driver had picked up somewhere along the way. ... Read More

ROY, UT – Drugs or driver fatigue may be factors in a truck accident that happened Wednesday in Weber County Utah. The semi truck rollover accident occurred on Interstate 15 near the city of Roy, south of the Ogden metropolitan area and 32 miles north of Salt Lake City. The area is in the north central section of the state, 308 miles southeast of Boise, Idaho and 124 miles southwest of Kemmerer, Wyoming.

Enviro Care Inc., a hazardous waste emergency response company of North Salt Lake, was brought in to clean up the diesel fuel spilled during the truck accident.

At approximately 4:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, an unidentified truck driver, 55 years old from South Weber, was traveling north on Interstate 15, pulling two tankers filled with close to 7500 gallons of diesel fuel. The tanker truck was owned by Golden Eagle Petroleum Refinery of Woods Cross, Utah. ... Read More

WASHINGTON COUNTY, UT – A student truck driver slammed head-on into a car, injuring four people Saturday afternoon in Utah. The truck accident occurred on Interstate 15, near New Harmony, 30 miles north of St. George in Washington County. The accident area is in the far southwest corner of the state near the Arizona border, 273 miles south of Salt Lake City and 284 miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona.

The student truck driver and his instructor were reportedly not injured in the head on truck accident.

The unidentified student truck driver was traveling south on Interstate 15 Saturday afternoon at around 3:00 p.m. As the student truck driver was in the area near highway mile marker 37 he lost control of the semi truck as he attempted to round a curve at a high rate of speed, and slid on the wet pavement. .. ... Read More