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KEARNS, Utah (AP) -- Three men died and a fourth was critically injured after the car they were in hit a utility pole Saturday.
The car hit a support wire, which set the vehicle airborne and it hit the pole several feet above the ground around 4:30 a.m. southwest of Salt Lake City, according to the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office.
One man who was found in the back of the 1987 Chevrolet Spectrum was pronounced dead at the scene. Two others were found on the street and sidewalk. One died after being taken to LDS hospital and the other was listed in extremely critical condition at University Hospital, the sheriff's office said.
After hitting the pole, the car had landed upside down and rolled back on its wheels before coming to a stop about 100 feet away from the utility pole, said Sgt. Paul Jaroscak, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.
While searching the scene about an hour after the accident, an officer noticed a shoe on top of a motor home parked along the fence. The officer looked over the fence and found the body of another man who had been thrown from the car, hit a house about 40 feet away from the road and dropped to the ground.
Investigators were not sure how fast the car was going, nor why it went off the road.
"There are no skid marks leading off the road. There was not black ice on the roadway," Jaroscak said.
The victims had no Utah identification and investigators were trying to learn who they were. A man investigators found through the car's registration said the men in the car were from Mexico.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
