There was a rollover accident late on Wednesday night on Interstate 80 which injured a teenage driver and her parents.
According to Utah Highway Patrol Sergeant Todd Royce, at about 11 p.m. on Wednesday, the 16-year-old female driver swerved to avoid airborne debris, believed to be the remnants of a truck retread tire, which had been dislodged by a car in front of her.
She then ran off the road and rolled down an embankment at mile post 99, near the Tooele-Salt Lake County line.
The Troopers closed down that section of I-80 for about an hour as the wreckage was cleared and helicopters landed to take the girl’s mother and father to University Hospital in Salt Lake City where they were reported to be in serious condition on Thursday.
Royce said that the girl suffered minor injuries and was transported by ambulance to a local hospital.,
He went on to say that all three people in the car were wearing seatbelts, which probably had saved their lives.
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