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Show Car lands on wall According to Clayton, if Higgins would have landed another foot or two to the left, he would have ended up in the southbound traffic and would have very likely caused a fatal accident on the freeway. Higgins was transported to Cottonwood Cot-tonwood Hospital, treated for minor injuries and released. The UHP reported that it took two wreckers nearly two hours to get the truck off the cement wall as traffic was reduced to two lanes for several hours on Halloween night. By PAUL CHALLIS NORTH SALT LAKE A South Jordan man is "lucky to be alive" following a one-car accident Halloween night when his car jumped from the freeway and landed land-ed on a cement blockade. Wade K. Higgins, 18, 1019 W. 9840 S., was driving alone Wednesday at 6:25 p.m. in his red, 1973 Dodge pick-up truck in the north bound lane of 1-15 near 50 South, when he realized traffic had stopped, according to Bruce Clayton, UHP trooper. Higgins, trying to avoid a collision colli-sion swerved to the left, lost control of his vehicle and went 10 feet into the air and landed on a cement wall. Clayton added that Higgins was thrown to the floor on his truck and was "very lucky" not to be more seriously hurt, as he was not wearing wear-ing a seat belt. "He was lucky he hit the barrier." |