ST. GEORGE — Authorities are investigating a vehicle crash that killed a 69-year-old man from Mesquite Tuesday afternoon.
Shortly after 4 p.m., Washington County Sheriff’s deputies and other responders were sent to the area of mile 15 on Old Highway 91 where a GMC Sierra pickup truck had run off the road and crashed into wooden fence posts and wire near the roadside.
“It appears the driver lost control of their truck and drove off the side of the roadway,” the Sheriff’s Office stated in a press release issued Tuesday night. “The vehicle then rolled and came to rest upright, on it’s wheels.”
The driver was wearing a seatbelt and become pinned inside the truck, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Witnesses who came across the crash tried to get the man out of the vehicle but failed.
The driver was subsequently pronounced dead by medical personnel once they arrived at the scene.
Members of the Santa Clara-Ivins Fire Department used special equipment to cut through the truck’s cab in order to recover the man’s body.
The incident is under investigation at this time, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
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A 69-year-old Mesquite, Nevada man was killed in a crash in the area of mile 15 on Old Highway 91, Washington County, Utah, Dec. 10, 2019 | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News | St. George News has blurred parts of the truck’s cab in order to avoid potential sight of the deceased man’s body.
A 69-year-old Mesquite, Nevada man was killed in a crash in the area of mile 15 on Old Highway 91, Washington County, Utah, Dec. 10, 2019 | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News | St. George News has blurred parts of the truck’s cab in order to avoid potential sight of the deceased man’s body.
Firefighters use special equipment to begin to cut into the truck to remove the body of a Mesquite, Nevada man who was killed in a crash on Old Highway 91, Washington County, Utah, Dec. 10, 2019 | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News
A 69-year-old Mesquite, Nevada man was killed in a crash in the area of mile 15 on Old Highway 91, Washington County, Utah, Dec. 10, 2019 | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News | St. George News has blurred parts of the truck’s cab in order to avoid potential sight of the deceased man’s body.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mori Kessler serves as a Senior Reporter for St. George News, having previously contributed as a writer and Interim Editor in 2011-12, and an assistant editor from 2012 to mid-2014. He began writing news as a freelancer in 2009 for Today in Dixie, and joined the writing staff of St. George News in mid-2010. He enjoys photography and won an award for photojournalism from the Society of Professional Journalists for a 2018 photo of a bee inspector removing ferals bees from a Washington City home. He is also a shameless nerd and has a bad sense of direction.