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Show i Six people escaped serious injury last on Aug. 19 when their Lexus sport utility vehicle rolled four and one-half times on the Mammoth Creek road, about five miles from the Duck Creek tumoff. Both I Six Escape Serious Injury In Mammoth Creek Accident HATCH A Las Vegas driver and her five passengers escaped serious se-rious injury Aug. 19 when their sports utility vehicle rolled four and a half times on a dirt mountain road, the rear of their SUV striking an embankment and pegging its front end about 10 feet up on a trees before coming to rest upside down . Driver Becky Vincent, 38, Las Vegas, who was wearing her seat-belt, seat-belt, was traveling eastbound on the Mammoth Creek road in her 1998 Lexus SUV with five 15-year-old male passengers. The scene looked grim when ti;,i ambulances and a fire fighting nountain unit from Panguitch arrived ar-rived on the scene as three of the ambulances and the fire department from Panguitch responded to the call and transported the victims, with only minor injuries, to Garfield Memorial Hospital. young men lay on the ground after having had been thrown from the vehicle as it rolled. In the driving rain, all six victims were quickly stabilized by Panguitch Emergency Medical Technicians and transported by ambulance to Garfield Memorial Hospital in Panguitch. They were treated and released with no reported broken bones or internal injuries. One teenager required re-quired follow-up reconstructive plastic surgery to his leg where skin had been torn or missing. Garfield County Sheriffs department de-partment officers Danny Perkins and Kevin Moore investigated the incident. Vincent was cited -with failure to maintain a vehicle on a mountain road. I |