A truck and trailer rolled on northbound I-15 around milepost 5 that caused traffic to back up until the scene was cleared by the Utah Highway Patrol. No injuries were reported, St. George, Utah, March 28, 2020 | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News
ST. GEORGE — A man passing through St. George on Interstate 15 Saturday afternoon is being called ‘lucky’ by the Utah Highway Patrol after his truck and trailer rolled across the highway.
The UHP responded to the report of a vehicle rollover on northbound I-15 just ahead of the highway off-ramp of the Dixie Drive/Exit 5 interchange around 1:30 p.m.
According to UHP Trooper Seth Spencer, a 64-year-old man who was driving a pickup truck towing a travel trailer with a side-by-side ATV on a trailer behind it lost control of his vehicle and “rolled it across all lanes of travel.”
The driver had apparently had trouble with the truck’s hitch when the rollover occurred, Spencer said.
Spencer called the driver very lucky due to his truck and trailer landing on their wheels and not breaking apart across the roadway.
Traffic on northbound I-15 in the area of milepost 5 was backed up for about a mile as it had to squeeze by the crash on the left shoulder of the roadway. The regular travel lanes were blocked for about 45 minutes until the truck and trailer were moved off the road.
No one was harmed in the rollover and the driver was not issued a citation, Spencer said.
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A truck and trailer rolled on northbound I-15 around milepost 5 that caused traffic to back up until the scene was cleared by the Utah Highway Patrol. No injuries were reported, St. George, Utah, March 28, 2020 | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News
A truck and trailer rolled on northbound I-15 around milepost 5 that caused traffic to back up until the scene was cleared by the Utah Highway Patrol. No injuries were reported, St. George, Utah, March 28, 2020 | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News
The trailer and side-by-side ATV behind it were involved in a rollover on northbound I-15 around milepost 5 that caused traffic to back up until the scene was cleared by the Utah Highway Patrol. No injuries were reported, St. George, Utah, March 28, 2020 | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News
A truck and trailer rolled on northbound I-15 around milepost 5 that caused traffic to back up until the scene was cleared by the Utah Highway Patrol. No injuries were reported, St. George, Utah, March 28, 2020 | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News
Members of the Utah Highway Patrol park along the shoulder of the highway after clearing a crash scene involving a truck and trailer that rolled on northbound I-15 around milepost 5 that caused traffic to back up until the scene was cleared by the Utah Highway Patrol. No injuries were reported, St. George, Utah, March 28, 2020 | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. George News
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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.