Accident on I-15 kills Provo woman
TREMONTON -- A Provo woman was killed in an accident on I-15 Monday afternoon.Killed was:
Sarah Carter, 21.
The wreck occurred near the I-15/I-84 split just before 2:30 p.m. when a northbound Ford Explorer driven by Kellie Englehardt, 20, Provo, was passing a semitrailer truck. During the pass, the Explorer went partially into the left-side median, and when Englehardt tried to get back on the road, the vehicle overcorrected and the Explorer began to roll, a Utah Highway Patrol report said.
The vehicle hit the semi's right front bumper, and Carter, who was a passenger in the front seat and was not wearing her seat belt, was ejected. Carter landed directly in the rig's path and was run over, the report said.
The Explorer continued to roll across the road, through the emergency lane, over a guardrail and came to rest on an embankment. Englehardt was taken to Bear River Community Hospital to be treated for minor injuries. The 39-year-old semi driver, from Chattanooga, Tenn., was taken to the hospital to be treated for shock, the report said.
Boy's hanging death ruled an accident
HONEYVILLE, Box Elder County -- Police concluded Tuesday morning that last week's hanging death of a 14-year-old boy was a practical joke that turned tragic.
The boy, whose identity was not released, wanted to scare his older sister but wound up dead at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Box Elder County Sheriff Leon Jensen said the body was discovered in a neighbor's garage after the sister went looking for her sibling.
Authorities say the boy was hanged with a piece of twine connected to the rafters that was tied there because the neighbor had skinned and cut apart an emu six months earlier.
The boy apparently placed a chair by the rope, put a bucket on top of the chair and used a piece of stiff carpet to ease the rope's contact with his skin.
The bucket tipped, however, and as the rope began to twirl, the carpet stymied the boy's efforts to get free.
When authorities found him, he had struggled to ease the tension of the rope by putting one foot onto a nearby freezer, where he was trying to escape to safety.
By that time, however, he had blacked out and died.
Last month, a 7-year-old Orem boy accidentally hanged himself after being sent to his room by his mother.
Error nullifies ban on laser-pointer use
Associated Press
A bill prohibiting people from flashing laser pointers at motorists or law enforcement officers has been nullified due to procedural error.
"It is the one casualty from the session, as far as bills we'll be invalidating," Richard Strong, director of the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, said Monday.
An amended version passed by the House never was voted on by the Senate, which had amended and approved another version.