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SALT LAKE CITY — A vehicle with two people inside tumbled from the top story of a Wal-Mart parking garage ramp.
Police said a woman was driving with her daughter down the icy exit of the Wal-Mart at 350 W. Hope Avenue Thursday night when their vehicle slid into a concrete barrier. It took out a tree and a parking sign when it fell from the upper deck of the parking lot.
The vehicle knocked off the cement wall and crashed to the ground level.
“It’s the first night we’ve had some precipitation with ice, so we’ve had a lot of accidents throughout the city and throughout the valley,” said Lt. Eddie Cameron of the Salt Lake City Police Department.
Cameron said motorists should treat parking garages like bridges and overpasses in icy conditions.
“They don’t have the ground keeping the road warm and so it freezes quickly,” he explained.
The mother and daughter were taken to a hospital and had minor head and neck injuries, but they are expected to recover, Cameron said.
Wal-Mart closed the upper deck of the parking lot while crews repair the cement.
