Crash clogs evening traffic on Bluff Street in St. George

Written by Chris Reed
February 10, 2023

ST. GEORGE — A crash involving a sedan and a sports utility vehicle caused the northbound lanes of Bluff Street at 100 South to be blocked for nearly an hour Thursday night. 

Scenes from crash at Bluff Street and 100 South, St. George, Utah, Feb. 9, 2023 | Photo by Chris Reed, St. George News

The incident happened around 7:20 p.m., as a white sedan collided with a blue SUV. The front passenger side of each vehicle was crunched in, though the sedan appeared more damaged. Both vehicles were towed from the site.

At the corner of Bluff and 100 South next to the entrance to Spilsbury Mortuary, officers stopped traffic from proceeding north and also turned around cars coming up 100 South that were trying to turn onto Bluff Street. 

No major injuries were reported, and officers helped out the cleaning crews from St. George Fire and a tow truck company by clearing away fragments left behind from the wreckage.

St. George Police Officer Kyle Clark said officers were still trying to piece together the cause of the collision and would have to follow up with pictures taken at the scene to determine fault.

“We had one going north; one trying to make a left-hand turn,” Clark said. “We haven’t really been able to evaluate all the photographs.”

The evaluations would have to wait until later. Just as the crash at that corner was cleared at 8:10 p.m., the officers were called out to another crash about 1,000 feet to the south at 300 Bluff Street.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chris Reed serves as a reporter for St. George News, where he has been honored with several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for his work, including first-place accolades. He started his journalism career as a sports reporter and editor in Southern California where he once compared shoe sizes with Shaquille O'Neal and exchanged mix tapes with members of the Los Angeles Kings. After growing up in the San Fernando Valley learning karate skills from Mr. Miyagi and spending a decade in Las Vegas mostly avoiding the casinos, he came to St. George for love and married his soulmate, a lifetime Southern Utah resident. He is the proud father of two boys, his youngest a champion against both autism and Type 1 diabetes.

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