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TOQUERVILLE -- The driver of a semi was hit and killed by another car Sunday when he got out of his truck to help the victims of a rollover crash on Interstate 15 in Washington County. A second man who was also hit died at the hospital.
According to the Utah Highway Patrol, a Mitsubishi SUV hydroplaned just north of the Zion exit, skidded off the road and rolled several times before smashing into large boulders --- sending the vehicle eight to 10 feet into the air. The SUV landed on its top amidst boulders and trees.
The driver of a semi truck stopped to help and was able to pull both occupants -- a man in his 30s and a woman in her 20s -- out of the SUV. That's when a Volkswagen hydroplaned, skidded off the side of the freeway and struck all three people.
The driver of the semi truck, 42-year-old Shannon Taylor of Colorado, was killed. The driver of the SUV, identified as 32-year-old Juan Carlos Frayre of Utah County, was flown to a Las Vegas hospital in critical condition where he later died. The woman was taken by ambulance to a local hospital with critical injuries.
The driver of the Volkswagen was not hurt. His female passenger was treated at a local hospital and released a short time later.
