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Show Three Life-Flighted North After Van Rolls On US 89 Near Hatch HATCH All three victims of a March 23 morning rollover on U.S. 89 one-quarter mile south of its junction with Utah Highway 12 were life-flighted to northern Utah hospitals after being stabilized at Garfield Memorial Hospital in Panguitch. At 9:45 Thursday morning, their 1978 Ford van traveling south on U.S. 89 left the right side of the highway briefly, ovcrcorrected, and crossed both lanes sideways at a 45-degrec 45-degrec angle before heading down the embankment on the east side. Investigating Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Gaylcn Moore said the van rolled side over side down the embankment, em-bankment, then end over end, ejecting eject-ing two of its occupants. There were no witnesses to the accident, but a truck driver who came upon the scene notified authorities, au-thorities, with Garfield County Sheriff Robert Judd arriving first, followed shortly after by the Panguitch Pan-guitch ambulance and Moore. All three of the van's occupants are from Provo. Driver Larry Lay-ton, Lay-ton, 41, a paraplegic, may have reached for something or fallen asleep, said Moore, but was unable to remember what happened. He Three victims from this March 23 rollover on U. S. Highway 89 a quarter mile south of Highway 12 were Life-Flighted to northern Utah hospitals after being stabilized at Garfield Memorial Hospital. suffered possible neck "injuries and broken bones. His passenger John Juassi, 14, was thrown some 50 feet from where he exited the van, suffering extremely serious injuries, including includ-ing head injuries and multiple fractures. frac-tures. The second passenger, Lay-ton's Lay-ton's son Miles, 14, sustained back injuries and a broken collarbone. They arrived at the hospital in Panguitch approximately 10:30 a.m. and were lifeflightcd out in the early afternoon. None of the three was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, Moore reported. At approximately 3:30 the same afternoon, after-noon, a rented van carrying tourists from Austria rearended an 18-wheeler 18-wheeler rig as both pulled off U.S. 89 at milepost 106 south of Hatch. The 1988 Chevy van was operated oper-ated by Arnold Maierhoter of Trat-tenweg, Trat-tenweg, Austria. He was accompanied accompa-nied by his wife, son, and his wife's parents. His mother, Maria Ganzberger, 66, required five stitches in her upper lip, but they appeared otherwise uninjured, reported re-ported Trooper Moore who also investigated in-vestigated the accident Truck Driver Jay Barney, 42, Flagstaff, Ariz., was uninjured. There were no citation issued. All occupants of the van were wearing seat belts, Moore said, who said there could possibly have been equipment failure involved. On March 20, at 3:30 p.m., Moore responded to an accident at the easternmost tunnel in Red Canyon. Bruce Haycock, 30, Tropic, driving a 1978 Thunderbird, said that in trying to avoid a vehicle stopped in the tunnel, he lost control con-trol of his car. It struck the tunnel with the rear, spun, passed through the tunnel, and came to rest in the parking area on the opposite side. When Moore arrived, Haycock said the other vehicle had left the scene. The accident was reported by a passerby. Haycock was arrested for DUI, booked at the county jail and released. Approximately 40 minutes after Haycock's accident, and only a quarter of a mile west, a 1987 Plymouth Ply-mouth Colt driven by Carolyn Barker, 25, Tropic, turned in front of a 1988 Chevy Blazer traveling the same direction driven by Dru-cilla Dru-cilla Williams, 42, Las Vegas, Nev. Barker and her passenger-husband Terry Barker were uninjured. Williams and the two passengers in her car also appeared to be uninjured, unin-jured, but one was later taken privately pri-vately to a hospital for a checkup. There were only minor damages to the vehicles and no citations were issued. Trooper Moore also investigated two deer-car accidents in the Cir-clevillc Cir-clevillc Canyon area the following day. Moore urges extra caution as deer are attracted to the salt and greening grasses next to the highway. |
