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SEVIER COUNTY -- A van carrying 12 illegal immigrants crashed and rolled in Salina Canyon, killing two people.
No one in the van was wearing a seat belt.
The van, traveling from California to Denver, was eastbound on Interstate 70 in Sevier County when, around 4 a.m. Tuesday, the driver dozed off and drifted off the road.
He drove over a rumble strip, which woke him up. He over corrected, hit a guard rail and rolled. Four people were ejected and thrown down a 50 foot embankment; two men were killed.
Four people were taken to the Sevier Valley Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The Utah Highway Patrol says all the passengers were illegal immigrants. Some are from Guatemala; others from Mexico.
"A lot of them didn't know each other, and two totally different groups," said UHP Trooper Cameron Roden.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has taken all the survivors into custody and opened an official investigation into human smuggling.
