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VEYO — A man is dead after the car he was driving plunged straight off a cliff and into a ravine in Veyo Thursday.
The man was heading north on state Route 18 through Veyo at about 7 p.m. and was about to cross the Veyo Arch Bridge over the Santa Clara River gorge when he exited the roadway and started driving through the dirt, Utah Highway Patrol trooper Mike Murphy said. He drove past cement barricades on the side of the bridge and rolled his Saturn sedan off the cliff, which is about 80 feet high.
The car suffered extensive damage on the way down; parts of the vehicle were strewn across the ravine. It landed on the driver’s side with the passenger side of the vehicle in the air, Murphy said. When police and other emergency responders arrived on the scene, the man was still alive.
“He was talking and screaming when we got down there,” Murphy said.
An ambulance and an Intermountain Life Flight helicopter rushed to the scene.
Emergency responders secured the man to a stretcher before starting to carry him out on the opposite side of the ravine, repeatedly yelling his name to make sure he remained conscious. When responders were close to the top of the ravine with the man in the stretcher, they set him down on the ground and started performing CPR.
After about 20 minutes of them taking turns performing CPR, the man was pronounced dead.
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